Flowering dogwood
NativeCornus florida
Dogwood (Cornaceae) · Small tree · 15–30 ft
Knowing it
Missouri's state tree: white bracts in April, red berries and maroon fall leaves, under taller trees in the Ozarks and eastern counties.
What a tree company sees
Dogwood anthracnose and borers weaken stressed trees; keep mowers off the trunk.
Recorded in 81 counties
- Adair County
- Barry County
- Barton County
- Benton County
- Bollinger County
- Boone County
- Buchanan County
- Butler County
- Callaway County
- Camden County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Carter County
- Cedar County
- Chariton County
- Christian County
- Clay County
- Cole County
- Cooper County
- Crawford County
- Dade County
- Dallas County
- Dent County
- Douglas County
- Dunklin County
- Franklin County
- Gasconade County
- Greene County
- Henry County
- Hickory County
- Holt County
- Howard County
- Howell County
- Iron County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Knox County
- Laclede County
- Lawrence County
- Lincoln County
- Madison County
- Maries County
- Marion County
- McDonald County
- Miller County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Morgan County
- New Madrid County
- Newton County
- Oregon County
- Osage County
- Ozark County
- Perry County
- Phelps County
- Pike County
- Platte County
- Polk County
- Pulaski County
- Ralls County
- Ray County
- Reynolds County
- Ripley County
- Scott County
- Shannon County
- Shelby County
- St. Charles County
- St. Francois County
- St. Louis City
- St. Louis County
- Ste. Genevieve County
- Stoddard County
- Stone County
- Taney County
- Texas County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
- Wright County
From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.