Object Details
- Description
- This flowering dogwood cultivar has better resistance to powdery mildew than any other white flowering dogwood.
- Hardiness
- -20 - 20 F
- Attracts
- Attracts birds with fruit and shelter; butterflies with nectar and as a host.
- Bloom Time
- April
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Accession Number
- 2014-1253A
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Life Form
- Deciduous tree
- Average Height
- 15-20'
- Bark Characteristics
- Smooth and gray with warts.
- Bloom Characteristics
- 22 yellow green flowers in a cluster surrounded by 4 white bracts. 4" wide overall.
- Fall Color
- Red
- Foliage Characteristics
- Simple, opposite, broadly ovate, with hairs on underside of leaf veins. Entire, slightly undulate margins. 5" long.
- Fruit Characteristics
- Red drupe.
- Structure
- Round
- Range
- Cultivated
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Tree Collection
- On Display
- National Museum of Natural History
- Common Name
- American boxwood
- Jean's Appalachian Snow Flowering Dogwood
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Asteranae
- Order
- Cornales
- Family
- Cornaceae
- Genus
- Cornus
- Species
- florida
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Trees
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2014-1253A
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax79463f457-501d-49de-9611-343bb8f4ae78
