How to Know the Wild Flowers

The book that taught America botany by color: find your flower under White, Yellow, Pink or Blue, and read its name, its haunts and its folklore — the first field guide organized the way people actually look.

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Alternate-Leaved Dogwood

Cornus alternifolia. Dogwood Family.

A shrub or tree eight to twenty-five feet high. Branches.--Greenish streaked with white. Leaves.--Alternate; clustered at the ends of the branches; oval; long-pointed. Flowers.--White; small; in broad, open clusters. Calyx, Corolla, etc.--As in above. Fruit.--Deep blue on reddish stalks. In copses on the hillsides we find this shrub flowering in May or June. Its deep blue, red-stalked fruit is noticeable in late summer.

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