While as many as 60 species of trees and shrubs are in the genus Cornus, the most common locally are our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) and the nonnative kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).

Another native bloomer that has emerged in grandiose form this spring in our favorite southern understory tree the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida). Dogwoods are about to be in full bloom. The ...

Palestine and the surrounding area is said to have one of the highest concentrations of Cornus florida dogwoods in Texas.