Gray Dogwood (Cornus racemosa)

Congratulations! Enjoy a price drop on this product thanks to funding from the DNR's Forest to MI Faucet initiative to promote clean water (See the full Planting Trees Cleans Water Collection): Cornus racemosa (a.k.a. Cornus foemina subsp. racemosa) Gray dogwood, is a thickly branched, slow growing dogwood seldom more than 6 feet high at maturity. Its flowers, which bloom in June or July, are white and loosely clustered, and its white fruit, which appears in September and October, is set off by bright red fruit-stalks. Current Sale Size: 1 gallon pot Growth Rate: Slow Soils: Sand, Loam, Clay Moisture: Moist to Dry Shade Tolerance: Full Sun to Shade Mature Height: 6-12 ft. Deer Damage Potential: Low Origin: Native Uses: Erosion Control, Flowering, Wildlife Trees4Bees!: This plant has been specially selected by our staff in partnership with local entomologists to support native bees and other pollinators critical to the ecosystem and human food systems. A community pollinator survey revealed that trees may represent the bulk of floral resources in spring, supporting pollinators that then benefit relatively sparse woodland ephemerals and early spring crops. In the fall, woody shrubs support the hibernation of some cavity-nesting native bees and other pollinators.