WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Buttonbush {Cephalanthus occidentalis) . Madder family. 
June to September. 
A shrub with spherical heads (one inch) of small flowers, with 
tubular four-lobed corollas, and long styles. Leaves oval, short- 
stalked, without teeth (sometimes whorled in threes). Near 
water. Named from the Greek words for head, and flower. 
Flowering Dogwood {Cornus florida). 
May, June. 
Dogwood family. 
A decorative shrub bearing apparently solitary flowers (three 
or four inches broad) with four large white petals (really 
the involucre, enclosing 
the small greenish-yellow 
flowers, each with four petals 
and four stamens) . Leaves 
broadly oval, pointed. Latin 
cormi, horn, referring to the 
hard wood. 
Red-osier Dogwood 
{Cornus stolonijera) . Dog- 
wood family. June, July. 
A shrub with purplish-red 
branches; little flowers with 
somewhat egg-shaped pet- 
als in flat clusters (cymes). 
Leaves egg-shaped, not 
toothed, short-pointed, with 
slender stalks. Woody 
places. Round-leaved Dogwood (C circinata) has rounded, 
short-stalked leaves, and greenish, spotted branches. Panicled 
Dogwood ( C. paniculata) has gray branches, leaves broadly egg- 
or lance-shaped. 
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FLOWERING DOGWOOD 
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