White Dogwood Tree

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The White Dogwood is an ornamental spring-blooming tree with white flowers (bracts) that turn into small red berries in the fall. It is a superb landscape tree that will complement your lawn and become a focal point due to it's elegant and unqiue twisted tree structure and elegant blooms.

White Dogwood Tree Growing Information

Family: Cornaceae

Light Requirement: Full Sun

Water Needs: Moist

Height: 15 – 30 ft.

Spread: 15 – 25 ft.

Growth Rate: Fast

Bloom Time: Spring

Flower Color: White

Wildlife Value: Attracts bees, butterflies

Landscape Uses & Care Tips for White Dogwood Trees

The White Dogwood Tree is a native deciduous flowering tree you must include in your landscaping for your home or company. Excellent when planted in your border, shade garden, or as an accent for your yard. Add native flowers underneath for a pleasant spring display.Beautiful white flowers bloom in spring, creating showy and gorgeous clouds of creamy white in your landscape. Small red berries replace them in the fall.

As these trees are most often understory in their natural environment, they perform best in locations that offer them partial shade with dappled sunlight. However, this tree can tolerate full sun and it not prone to pests or diseases.

Pollinators Flock to this beautiful flowering tree

Their flowers are attractive to many different types of bees. Good news for birders – many local birds, including Cedar Waxwings, Northern Flickers, and Robins eat the berries. Squirrels and other small mammals also eat them.

Why Choose a White Dogwood Tree?

The White Dogwood Tree attracts many butterflies with its nectar-filled flowers. It is most notably the host plant for the Spring Azure butterfly and the nocturnal Cecropia Silk moth.

The flowers are not actually flowers; the “petals” are a modified leaf called bracts. The true flowers are very small and are in the center.