Family: Cornaceae
Name: Cornus racemosa - Gray Dogwood
Bloom Time: May - June
Flower: White
Soil Condition: Average, Moist, Wet
Light: Sun, Partial Shade
Height: 10-15' tall by 10-15' wide
Native Range: Eastern North America including Long Island
Zone: 4 to 8
Cornus racemosa is a great wildlife shrub that forms a thicket if left to naturalize. The flowers in the spring are great for native pollinators. White berries on showy red stems appear in the summer and are quickly gobbled up by small mammals. Fall color is purple, pink, yellow and green.
Maintenance: If necessary, remove root suckers to control spread
Benefits: Host plant to Spring Azure, Summer Azure and Gray Hairstreak butterflies, deer resistant, birds and mammals eat the berries, clay tolerant
Companion Plants: Symphyotrichum cordifolium - Blue Wood Aster, Polystichum acrostichoides - Christmas Fern, Geum fragarioides - Barren Strawberry, Eurybia macrophylla - Big Leaf Aster, Solidago caesia - Bluestem Goldenrod
pics: KMS Native Plants
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