red osier dogwood
cornus sericea latin

Other smaller trees and shrubs such as sandbar willow, red osier dogwood and buffalo berry were also common.

Of these a particular favorite is the red-barked red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea), which can often be seen along river banks and in damp meadows.

Some are former sand mines which are returning as dry prairie, including clumps of little bluestem grass or red osier dogwood.

The Ojibwe used red osier dogwood bark as a dye by taking the inner bark, mixing it with other plants or minerals.

Native plants to the escarpment include burr oak, beaked hazel, high bush cranberry, serviceberry, and red osier dogwood.

Cascara is common in the understory of bigleaf maple forest, alongside red osier dogwood and red alder.

Around the edges is a dense shrub layer, often containing red osier dogwood, willow, and Kalm's St. John's wort.

Cornus sericea ("Red Osier Dogwood")

(Here including C. stolonifera; Swida sericea; Red Osier Dogwood).

This is especially important for the red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea), which has gorgeous show-off red branches if the new growth is allowed to come up each spring.

Less-wooded shrub swamps are composed of speckled alder, red osier dogwood, and willow, with an understory of meadowsweet, leatherleaf, and heath.

Bearberry, low-bush cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea, syn.

Even the shrubby red osier dogwood is not immune nor is the western species, Cornus nuttalli, with its huge flowers or the splendid groundcover species, C. canadensis.

The shrub layer is thin but consist of eastern cottonwood, ash, and willow seedlings, wild and multiflora rose, Japanese honeysuckle, blackberry, grape, and red osier dogwood.

At the other end of the pruning spectrum from red osier dogwood are shrubs like witch hazel, cotoneaster, enkianthus, PeeGee hydrangea, climbing roses, tree peonies, and many viburnums.

Along streambanks it is commonly associated with willows 'Salix' spp., red osier dogwood 'Cornus stolonifera', Oregon ash 'Fraxinus latifolia' and bigleaf maple 'Acer macrophyllum'.

Black cottonwood, red osier dogwood, willow, Oregon white oak, and Oregon ash grow in scattered locations throughout the watershed, while wapato and Columbia sedge thrive in a few places.

Though pure tobacco is commonly used today, traditionally "kinnikinnick"-a giniginige ("mixture") of primarily red osier dogwood with bearberry and tobacco, and occasionally with other additional medicinal plants-was used.

Acer rubrum Red Maple, Clethra alnifolia Sweet Pepperbush, Betula nigra River Birch, Cornus sericea Red Osier dogwood.

Among the ingredients in kinnikinnick were non-poisonous sumac leaves, and the inner bark of certain bushes such as red osier dogwood (silky cornell), chokecherry, and alder, to improve the taste of the bearberry leaf.

The inner bark of the alder, as well as red osier dogwood, or chokecherry, was also used by Native Americans in their smoking mixtures, known as kinnikinnick, to improve the taste of the bearberry leaf.

The jail is all brick walls and steel doors, cyclone fences and razor wire; the nursery is pink azaleas and red osier dogwoods, Chinese elms and Kentucky coffee trees, as well as holly and juniper.

You can still see the sculpture of things before the distraction of leaves and flowers - the beautiful gray fissured bark of the shadbush (Amelanchier arborea), the bright burgundy twigs of the red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea).

C. stolonifera, Swida sericea, (red osier dogwood) is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native throughout northern and western North America from Alaska east to Newfoundland, south to Durango and Nuevo León in the west, and Illinois and Virginia in the east.

Of these a particular favorite is the red-barked red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea), which can often be seen along river banks and in damp meadows.

Jepson Flora of California: Cornus sericea; subsp.

The fourth member of this grouping is Kelseyi, a two- to four-foot dwarf red-twig dogwood (Cornus sericea).

This is especially important for the red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea), which has gorgeous show-off red branches if the new growth is allowed to come up each spring.

Profile: Red-osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea) Photos, Drawings, Text.

Bearberry, low-bush cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea, syn.

Acer rubrum Red Maple, Clethra alnifolia Sweet Pepperbush, Betula nigra River Birch, Cornus sericea Red Osier dogwood.

The larvae feed on Populus tremuloides, Betula papyrifera, Shepherdia canadensis, Cornus sericea, Corylus cornuta, Quercus, Holodiscus discolor, Pinus contorta, Amelanchier alnifolia and Salix species.

You can still see the sculpture of things before the distraction of leaves and flowers - the beautiful gray fissured bark of the shadbush (Amelanchier arborea), the bright burgundy twigs of the red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea).