Dwarf Flowering Dogwood Tree Varieties

It is native to british columbia and washington.

Dwarf flowering dogwood tree varieties. Dogwood tree types flowering dogwood. Common dogwood cornus sanguinea. A 20 to 30 foot tree that s draped in snow white or rosy pink flowers. Cornus flowering cornus dogwood trees are grown for their showy coloured bracts in late spring and early summer.

A 6 to 15 foot evergreen with soft pink flowers. Also known as bloodtwig dogwood or european dogwood this species is an upright. Henry anise zones 7 9. You may also recognize it by its older now less commonly used names.

These include american dogwood florida dogwood white dogwood indian arrowwood white cornel cornelian tree false box and false boxwood. Other common names include mountain dogwood and western flowering dogwood. The scientific name for this tree is cornus nuttallii. Native to china japan and korea the kousa dogwood cornus kousa is very similar to the flowering.

Lollipop crabapple zones 3 8. Sanguinea are grown for their vivid winter stem colour while shrubby c mas the cornelian cherry is grown for its winter flowers and summer fruits. The flowering dogwood is the most commonly planted due to its showy nature. The usda hardiness zones for this tree are 7 to 9.

Of all the varieties of dogwood gardeners are most familiar with the flowering dogwood cornus. A 10 to 15 foot tree with a slender spread of bushy white flowers. Dwarf flowering trees to plant in small spaces. The name dog tree entered the english vocabulary before 1548 becoming dogwood by 1614.

12 species of dogwood trees and shrubs canadian bunchberry cornus canadensis. Pacific dogwood cornus. They are distinctive with four petal like bracts around the central flowers. 15 popular types of dogwood.

Flowering dogwood trees cornus florida and cornus kousa have large flower bracts in late spring to early summer that come in shades of white to rich pink. The canadian bunchberry also known simply as bunchberry or dwarf cornel is. Once the name dogwood was affixed to this kind of tree it soon acquired a secondary name as the hound s tree while the fruits came to be known as dogberries or houndberries the latter a name also for the berries of black nightshade alluding to hecate s hounds. The bright yellow late winter blooms of the cornelian cherry cornus mas start off the year in a cheery way.