How to grow Red Twig Dogwood

Cornus sericea

This is a tree suitable to bogs and water gardens. Needs constant moisture.


It may also be invasive in some areas.
You can cut the dogwood completely to the ground in spring and within a year or two it will be back

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Red twig dogwood Etymology

Cornus, from the Latin, cornu, “horn or antler”.
Sericea, from the Greek, serikos (serikos), “of silk”.
The old species name, stolonifera, refers to how it can spread underground by stolons.
Many of the common names come from the brightly colored twigs and branches.

Red twig dogwood Folklore & Trivia

Long slim stems were used by Native Americans for basket weaving and are still used by present-day crafters.1
Native Americans and early settlers smoked the inner bark, stem scrapings, and leaves, which have a slightly narcotic effect.1
Native Americans also used an extract as an emetic for treating fevers and coughs and obtained dyes from the bark and roots.1

Other names for Red twig dogwood

Red osier dogwood, Red-rood, Red rood, American dogwood, Western dogwood, Red Twig Dogwood, Redstem Dogwood, Red Dogwood, Kinnikinnik, Squawbush, Creek Dogwood, California Dogwood, Red-stemmed Cornel, Redbrush, Gutter Tree, Red Willow, harts rouges, Poison Dogwood, Shoemack, Waxberry Cornel, Dogberry Tree, yellow dogwood, Golden dogwood, , Yellow twig dogwood

Cornus stolonifera, Swida sericea, Cornus alba var. occidentalis, Cornus occidentalis, Cornus alba var. baileyi, Cornus alba var. californica, Cornus alba var. interior, Cornus alba var. coloradense, Cornus baileyi, Cornus instolonea, Cornus interior, Cor

Misspellings: Redosier Dogwood, Redtwig dogwood,

Footnotes

1 Red Osier Dogwood

2 Landscaping for Bluebirds

3 Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

4 University of Illinois


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