Question: Hello, Picture This repeatedly identified this plant as Silky Dogwood. Before I post it as a sighting, I wanted to …
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Question
Hello, Picture This repeatedly identified this plant as Silky Dogwood. Before I post it as a sighting, I wanted to check with an expert. It was in my yard in Woodbridge, CT, at the edge of our wooded lot. The soil is clay and in that area, varies between moist and wet.They are appearing in some spots where we have been euthanizing multiflora rose. Their companions: spice bush, sensitive fern, goldenrod, winterberry, jumpseed, & arrowwood viburnum. None were blooming. Thank you!
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Dear LydiaFT, good morning. The confident answer is that we can't tell. This is certainly a dogwood (genus Swida), and we can rule out some species, but we can't tell with certainty which species this is from the images provided (Picture This isn't giving you a realistic answer). However, one way we can determine it is Cornus amomum (silky dogwood) is to cut one of the two-year-old branches and look for brown colored pith (the other dogwoods have white pitch in the center). Feel free to continue the conversation through email (ahaines@nativeplanttrust.org). Best wishes.
