• Flowering dogwood tree"Dogwood: Dream Sequence" is Copyrighted by Flickr user: di_the_huntress (Diana) under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
  
  

Flowering Dogwood

• The flowering dogwood can grow as high as 40 feet under the right conditions, but is normally a little smaller tree, typically averaging between 20 and 30 feet.
  
  

Considerations

• In the western part of the United States, there are varieties of dogwood that seldom reach the size of a tree. The Blackfruit dogwood and the Western dogwood often grow near lakes, streams and ponds.
  
  

Size

• Pacific dogwood is among the largest dogwood trees in North America, sometimes reaching heights of 60 feet. Its trunk can possess a width of 2 feet, and this tree grows only along the Pacific Coast.
  
  

Geography

• Red-osier dogwood, an example of a shrub dogwood, has one of the widest geographical ranges of any American dogwood, growing throughout most of the northern states, into the western third of the nation and all over Canada.
  
  

Features

• Alternate-leaf dogwood has the ability, like several other dogwood species, to be either a shrub or a tree, depending on its height. It differs from other dogwoods in that the leaves on the twigs alternate, while most dogwoods have leaves opposite one another on the twig.