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The flowering dogwood trees are unique in that the blooms are so dense that the trees appear to be laden with a heavy coat of pink and white flowers.
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2024
Three years later, the United States reciprocated by sending flowering dogwood trees to Japan.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
The most visible wildflowers were the large, white blossoms of the flowering dogwood along the state park road.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
Myth #3: Native plants look weedy Tell that to a flowering dogwood, a nice, big clump of snow trillium (Trillium nivale), or a patch of lady slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule).
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2023
If your site is shady, Wheeler suggests an Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) or flowering dogwood (Cornus florida).
—Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
This is about my neighbor’s white flowering dogwood tree.
—oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
Add white flowering dogwood branches, Queen Anne’s Lace, spirea, and white flowers to a tall cylindrical vase that’s clear, white, or blue.
—Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
Kentucky's locally native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) has inhabited much of the eastern portion of North America for millennia — long before any humans showed up.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2023
Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2024
Three years later, the United States reciprocated by sending flowering dogwood trees to Japan.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
The most visible wildflowers were the large, white blossoms of the flowering dogwood along the state park road.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
Myth #3: Native plants look weedy Tell that to a flowering dogwood, a nice, big clump of snow trillium (Trillium nivale), or a patch of lady slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule).
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2023
If your site is shady, Wheeler suggests an Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) or flowering dogwood (Cornus florida).
—Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
This is about my neighbor’s white flowering dogwood tree.
—oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
Add white flowering dogwood branches, Queen Anne’s Lace, spirea, and white flowers to a tall cylindrical vase that’s clear, white, or blue.
—Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2023
Kentucky's locally native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) has inhabited much of the eastern portion of North America for millennia — long before any humans showed up.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2023
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flowering dogwood
noun
flow·er·ing dogwood
ˈflau̇(-ə)r-iŋ- 
: a common spring-flowering white-bracted dogwood of the genus Cornus (C. florida) the dried bark of whose root has been used as a mild astringent and stomachic
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