Beginning Botany: Winter Shrub Identification
Beginning Botany: Winter Shrub Identification
Beginning Botany: Winter Shrub Identification
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Gray dogwood (Cornus foemina, aka C.<br />
racemosa)<br />
Tools for ID<br />
<strong>Winter</strong> <strong>Shrub</strong><br />
ID Process<br />
Invasive<br />
<strong>Shrub</strong>s<br />
Native<br />
<strong>Shrub</strong>s<br />
Thanks!<br />
Practice<br />
Habitat: open to moderately shady, dry to wet-mesic habitats<br />
Twig/bud arrangement: opposite<br />
Key characteristics:<br />
•Many-stemmed clonal shrub with smooth, light gray bark<br />
•Twigs slender & light red/brown becoming gray with age, glabrous, 2-3 year-old twigs with<br />
brown pith<br />
•Buds small & valvate, look like bird beaks<br />
•Fruit round white (rarely blue) drupes on red pedicels<br />
Image Source: http://michiganflora.net/images.aspx?id=868<br />
Image Source:<br />
http://woodyplants.nres.uiuc.edu/plant/corra30
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