Alternate-leaved Dogwood

Small specimen tree. Can also work as an understory tree.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Birds and small mammals consume the fruit.

Slope forest, upland hardwood forest. Bluffs, creek forests.

• Fall color, Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
• Larval host for cecropia silkmoth (Hyalophora cecropia) and spring azure butterfly (Celastrina ladon). 
• Attracts long-tongued bees, short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, and butterflies.