RHH's photos with the keyword: cornus

Photographed along the Harding Icefields trail in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.

Photographed along the Baker Lake trail in western Washington, these are the flowers of Bunchberry, a common plant in the Pacific Northwest and a relative, only a few inches tall of the flowering dogwood trees that are often grown as ornamentals. It has red berries later in the year that are edible.

These are the flowers, bracts and leaves of Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, a plant closely related to Dogwood.

Bunchberry is a relative of the flowering dogwood trees many of us are acquainted with but is a plant only a few inches tall, the smallest in that family.

Photographed in Tumwater Historical Park, these Dogwood were magnificent and in full bloom. We walked the trails in the park after having lunch at a Japanese restaurant in Tumwater.

If I am not mistaken these are the twigs and bugs of the Red Osier Dogwood, a common shrub in our area.

In Explore May 22, 2009, #188. Pink Dogwood (Cornus florida rubra)

Dogwood (Cornus florida) flower, still beautiful, but starting to fade.

The quote is from the 17th century poet, Robert Herrick.

Photographed in our neighborhood last autumn while on an evening walk. According to the information I have the fruits are edible and especially attractive as food to the squirrels. We did not sample them, however. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2011/12/autumn-afte...

Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, is a dwarf Dogwood and very common in our area. The white dogwood-like flowers are followed in late summer with these red berries. The plant is only 4-8 inches tall and this example was photographed along the Berg Lake trail in Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-berg-la...