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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Panicled Dogwood

Cornus paniculata. Dogwood Family.

A shrub four to eight feet high. Branches.--Gray; smooth. Leaves.--Narrowly ovate; taper-pointed; whitish but not downy beneath. Flowers.--White; small; in loose clusters. Calyx, Corolla, etc.--As in other dogwoods. Fruit.--White. Along the banks of streams and in the thickets which mark the limits of the meadow we find this shrub in flower in June or early July.

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