Flowers:
Cream (Small, creamy-white flowers in flat-topped cymes (1.5-2" dia.) in late spring)
Foliage:
Green (Light to medium green summer foliage); Yellow (Fall foliage)
Fruit:
White (Bluish-white berries; summer)
Soil:
Adaptable to a variety of soil conditions, but prefers a moist, well-drained soil
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves (2-4.5" long and half as wide) opposite, simple, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, usually rounded at base, dark green above and somewhat glaucous beneath. Dogwood veins sweep toward, but never contact, the leaf margin. Round fruit is white and flattened slightly at each end. Stems are greenish-yellow in summer, turning to a strong, clear yellow in fall and winter. Stems have prominent whitish lenticels.
