White flowers appear in late spring and early summer.
Silky Dogwood(Cornus obliqua) Watauga Co., NC 21 July 2006
Common in the NC mountains and very similar to the species above, this silky dogwood differs from the species above by the shape of the leaf base and by the type of hairs on the undersides of the leaves.
Flowering Dogwood(Cornus florida) Moore Co., NC 12 Apr 2008
Common statewide in and along the edges of various wooded habitats.
Flowering Dogwood(Cornus florida) Moore Co., NC 12 Apr 2008
The "flowers" are actually clusters of small greenish-yellow flowers in the middle of 4 large white petal-like bracts.
Flowering Dogwood(Cornus florida) Moore Co., NC 12 Apr 2008
Not known from NC, and rare in the Virginia mountains, Bunchberry Dogwood is common in the northern US and in Canada, where this photo was taken.
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.
