Bunchberry

(Cornus canadensis)

 

Color Photographs: Copyright Corel Corporation

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)

Identification: Four white "petals" are actually 4 large, white brachts surrounding a cluster of small, greenish flowers. Fruit a cluster of red berries. Leaves in a whorl of 6, each ovate with a produced apex. Plant 3 to 8 inches in height.

Distribution: Northern Canada southward to the northern United States and southward in the mountains to West Virginia and Virginia in the east and Colorado and New Mexico in the west.

Habitat: Bunchberry is a species of cold woods and mountain slopes.

Flowering period: May to July.

Comments: Other species of the family Cornaceae (Dogwoods) are woody trees or shrubs.

Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)

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Unique flowers and leaves readily identify this species.

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