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Definition of Red osier dogwood
1. Noun. Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers.
Generic synonyms: Cornel, Dogwood, Dogwood Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Osier Dogwood
Literary usage of Red osier dogwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"RED-OSIER DOGWOOD. Cornus stolonifera. Dogwood Family. A shrub from three to six
feet high. ... REDOSIER DOGWOOD."
2. Among Country Schools by Olly Jasper Kern (1906)
"(c) European red osier dogwood. 78. (a) Mountain Sumac, (b) Rhus glabra. (c) Rhus
typhina. 79. Norway Maple. 80. Flowering Raspberry. 81. ..."
3. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"The Red-osier Dogwood is common in wet or sandy lowlands and along water courses
from Newf. northwest to the Mackenzie River, Can., and south to Washington, ..."
4. A Naturalist in the Great Lakes Region by Elliot Rowland Downing (1922)
"Round the margins in addition to the shiny- leaved willow one finds the red-osier
dogwood, the shrubby cinquefoil, and St. John's-wort. ..."
5. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... are rich in shrubby dogwoods, whose beauty earns them places in our gardens
and shrubbery borders. There is the white-berried red-osier dogwood (C. ..."
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