Four coinage of dogwoods ( Cornus spp . ) are native to the plains and foothills of South Carolina . The flowers are bantam , but seem large and showy because they are skirt by larger , normally white bracts that tempt the aid of insect pollinator . These bush and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree appreciate a moist , acid soil and shading from hot summertime sunlight in rules of order to grow and perform their good in the garden .

Flowering Dogwood

Flowering cornel ( Cornus florida ) is one of North America ’s most beautiful flowering trees as is beloved in South Carolina as a harbinger of mid - spring . bloodless or pink flush bracts appear in March and early April followed by modest ellipse fruits that are ruby in summertime . In fall the leaves rosiness to shades of red , imperial and garden pink . This deciduous Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree develop 20 to 25 feet tall .

Pagoda Dogwood

Also called green osier , the pagoda dogwood ( Cornus alternifolia ) has tiered branches that gives an attractive , architecturally interesting showing . In other summertime modest whitened flowers appear and developed into blue - pitch-black fruits by fall . The foliage turn blood-red and purple in fall , too . It grows 20 feet tall .

Gray Dogwood

A small , bushy tree with multiple , suckering root word , gray dogwood ( Cornus racemosa ) has sienna colour twigs that get on grizzly . The white efflorescence bracts appear in late leap and yield white berry by previous summer . In autumn the parting turn purplish red . This deciduous plant grow 10 to 15 feet improbable .

Silky Dogwood

A deciduous large bush , the silky dogwood ( Cornus amomum ) is have intercourse for its blanched bracts in late outflow and coloured orange , reddened and purple downslope foliage . The fruits are interesting as they look metallic , being grey blue . This plant spring up 10 feet tall at maturity .

Exotic Species

Several decorative dogwood that are alien , or not native to South Carolina , are popular in garden . Many are aboriginal to eastern Asia , such as the kousa cornel ( Cornus kousa ) , elephantine dogwood tree ( Cornus controversa ) , evergreen dogwood tree ( Cornus capitata ) , Nipponese cornel cornel ( Cornus officinalis ) and Tartarin dogwood ( Cornus alba ) . Bloodtwig dogwood tree ( cornu sanguinea ) hails from Europe . The cherry-red osier dogwood ( Cornus sericea / stolonifera ) is native to eastern North America , but does not pass naturally as far south as South Carolina .

Another plant , Cornelian cherry tree ( Cornus mas ) , is botanically a dogwood although deceivingly commonly called a " cerise " . It also is grown as an ornamental in garden across South Carolina .

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