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Photographer: Paul Drobot
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Family Cornaceae
Cornus racemosa Lam.
gray dogwood, northern swamp dogwood, panicled dogwood
Cornus: Latin cornu for "horn," probably referring to the hardness of the wood
racemosa: Latin for "having a raceme" (cluster of flowers each on its own stalk and arranged along a single central stem)
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| Status: | Native - potentially invasive |
| Plant: | perennial, 6'-15' tall shrub, with smooth, gray twigs |
| Flower: | white, 4-parted; inflorescence a loose, branched cluster (cyme); blooms May-June |
| Fruit: | white berry, on red stems |
| Leaf: | opposite, stalked, oval to lance-like with a long tip, pale below, 1.5"-4" long |
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