While as many as 60 species of trees and shrubs are in the genus Cornus, the most common locally are our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) and the nonnative kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).

Varieties range in size from smaller shrubs to large flowering trees with white or yellow blooms that emerge each spring. Yet despite their beauty, not all dogwood trees are beneficial.

Kousa dogwood trees are popular ornamental trees with attractive white flowers. Although Kousa dogwood trees are native to ...

Shrub dogwoods are found growing in moist areas across North America. Species include Tatarian Dogwood, Redtwig Dogwood, and ...

Kousa dogwood flowers about a month later than ... to enjoy the spectacle "nature's little show-off" and other flowering trees and shrubs put on. David Trinklein, Ph.D., is a University of ...

Dogwood trees are well-behaved species but still need some tidying. Learn how to prune dogwood trees, when and why with this ...

In the 1930s, area naturalists were suggesting that Quincy residents plant a dogwood tree, either pink or white. Mrs. Ward ...

There is an Eastern dogwood tree (Cornus florida) — so-called since it is native to the Eastern US — at the end of my block, which I check on each spring to see if it’s flowering.