Smell the Flowers Week 10: Dogwood

Dogwood (Cornus florida), full and side view of flowers on branchlet. Duke Forest Korstian Division, Durham, North Carolina USA. Photo by Dcrjsr at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dogwood_flower_branchlet.jpg

Week 10 includes the final week of 3/11 through 3/17 of the Spring 2018 Smell the Flowers fitness challenge at Woodleaf United Methodist Church. This week highlights North Carolina's state flower, the flowering dogwood. The photo shows Cornus florida with the traditional white blooms we associate with our state flower. However, there is another greenish-yellow dogwood variety also called Blackgum, Black Tupelo, Sourgum, or Pepperidge, or Nyssa sylvatica. This deciduous tree is of the Cornaceae or Dogwood family and grows to a height of about 90-100 feet. Dogwoods typically bloom April and May and can be found in the mountains, Piedmont, and coast of North Carolina.

For more information about the dogwood, click here. Have you ever seen a dogwood?

"For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the Word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word by which the gospel is preached unto you." 1 Peter 1:24-25