![]() It occurs from the lowlands of southern British Columbia to the mountains of southern California. Pacific Dogwood in the understory of a forest, showing its typical habit. The common names comes from that of Cornus sanguinea, the hard wood of which Northern Europeans used to make nails ("dags") during the medieval era. It was named nuttallii after him by his friend John James Audubon. Įnglish botanist Thomas Nuttall was the first to describe the species for science while staying at Fort Vancouver in the autumn of 1834. florida and did not send seeds back to England. nuttalli on his expedition to the Pacific Northwest in the 1820s, he mistook it for C. However, when Scottish botanist David Douglas encountered C. ![]() In 1806, Meriwether Lewis noted that the species is similar in appearance to C. Cornus canadensis has similar blossoms but grows as a groundcover. The eastern United States' Cornus florida (flowering dogwood) is similar in appearance and possibly in chemical composition. The fruit is a compound pink-red or orange drupe about 1–1.5 cm ( 1⁄ 2– 1⁄ 2 in) long, in clusters containing 20–40 drupelets, each of which contains two seeds. The flowers commonly bloom twice per season, once in the spring and again in late summer or early fall. The flowers are individually small and inconspicuous, 2–3 millimetres ( 1⁄ 16– 1⁄ 8 in) across, produced in a dense, rounded, greenish-white flower head 2 cm ( 3⁄ 4 in) in diameter the 4–8 large white 'petals' are actually bracts, each bract 4–7 cm ( 1 + 1⁄ 2– 2 + 3⁄ 4 in) long and broad, creating the appearance of a larger flower head. They are green with stiff, appressed hairs on top, and hairier and lighter on the bottom. The branches have fine hairs and the young bark is thin and smooth, becoming scale-like with ridges as it ages. The trunk attains 15–30 centimetres (6–12 in) in diameter. Its habit varies based on the level of sunlight in full sun it will have a short trunk with a crown as wide as it is tall, while under a canopy it will have a tapered trunk with a short, slender crown. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree, reaching 6–23 metres (20–75 feet) tall, often with a canopy spread of 6 m (20 ft). The small flowers are in a dense cluster surrounded by large white bracts. ![]()
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