RED-OSIER DOGWOOD 



Cornus stolonifera Michaux 



The red-osier dogwood is an attractive shrub, not only when in 

 bloom but also in the early fall, when its bunches of bluish- white ber- 

 ries are borne in abundance, and the leaves change in color to scarlet, 

 purple, or gold. The Indians used the scraped inner bark for smoking 

 purposes, and preferred it to any other plant, giving it the name "kinni- 

 kinnick". In winter the slender, graceful, purplish-red stems are con- 

 spicuous and distinctive. 



Red-osier dogwood may be found from Virginia to Newfoundland, 

 and from Mexico to Alaska, and at many places in the interior of the 

 continent. 



The specimen sketched grew at Radium Hot Springs, in the Co- 

 lumbia River Valley, British Columbia, at 3,000 feet elevation. 



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