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Characteristics
 Family-
Cornaceae--The Dogwood Family
- Origin
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Native NC
- Plant Description
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Deciduous small tree - shrub to 15 feet, leaves opposite, narrow elliptical, without teeth on the margins, and with a very rough, sandpapery surface; flowers in May to June, small, creamy white, borne in flat clusters; fruit in August to September, white colored on red stalks.
- Ornamental Characteristics
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Attractive native small tree, delicate small flowers, white fruits on showy red fruit stalks.
- Landscape Use
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If present on property, conserve.
- Horticultural Cultivars
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None.
- Availability/Propagation
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Not available in nurseries. Transplant seedlings from the wild (with permission), attempt propagation by planting seed from cleaned fruits.
- Culture
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Partial to full shade, moist to well drained soils.
- Coastal Ecology
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Roughleaf dogwood is a rare plant, found in North Carolina only near the South Carolina border in Brunswick county. Found in low woods and swamp forests, observed on basic soils with high shell content.
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