#Cornus canadensis

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Photo by Dick Busher:

An intimate landscape from the rain forest of Olympic National Park.

Captured on film with a Sinar Norma 4x5 view camera, and digitized with a Tango drum scanner at 5,000 dpi.

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Bunchberry Cornus canadensis Cornaceae

Photographs taken on June 20, 2023, at Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Woodview, Ontario, Canada.

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Cornus canadensis

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Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis

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Plants for The Vast

Bellflowers (Campanula)

Soapwort (Saponaria)

Lupine (Lupinus)

Columbine (Aquilegia)

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

Delphinium (Delphinium elatum)

Lilacs (Syringa vulgaris)

Blanket flower (Gaillardia aristata)

Rocky Mountain Penstemon (Penstemon strictus)

Mountain Pansy (Viola lutea)

Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)

Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata)

Rustyback Fern (Asplenium ceterac)

Flame Azalea (Rhododendron calendulaceum)

Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva)

Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)

Piper's Bellflower (Campanula piperi)

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

Boltonia (Boltonia asteroids)

Alpine aster (Aster alpinus)

Dogwood tree (Cornus florida)

Brown's peony and California peony (Paeonia brownii, Paeonia californica)

Whitebark, limber, and bristlecone pine (Pinus albicaulis, Pinus flexilis, and Pinus subsection Balfourianae)

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The dreary weather persisted today, so I blew off a planned trip to Ohiopyle and hiked several trails along Clay Run in Coopers Rock State Forest instead. The pink lady’s slipper orchids (Cypripedium acaule) are now coming into bloom, reminding me that May is just around the corner.  From top: flowering dogwood (Cornus florida); the plummeting green-yellow flowers of striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum); broadleaf toothwort (Cardamine diphylla); Canada violet (Viola canadensis); two-leaf miterwort (Mitella diphylla); Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum); and pink lady’s slipper orchid.

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My Garden Flowers Part 3

All photos mine. The small buttercup and evening primrose are edited for colour since the camera didn't catch it and washed it out.

In order of appearance:

In order of appearance:

061. Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare) Didn't do so well the last place I had her in, but she seems happy in this spot, so fingers crossed.

062. Crested Iris (Iris cristata) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

063. Smallflower Buttercup (Rancunculus abortivus) Not much to look at compared with other buttercups but one of the only native buttercups with (limited) edible uses.

064. Smooth Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet. Soon, hopefully!

065. False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosa) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet, but she's growing well so hopefully next year.

066. Blisterwort (Ranunculus recurvatus) I didn't plant that. She just turned up last year. Not pictured as I haven't got any pictures yet.

067. Fairy Spuds (Claytonia virginica) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet. She's a wee little spud in the ground.

068. Flowering Dogwood (Cornus floridus) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet but she is slowly spreading out.

069. Plantain-Leaf Sedge (Carex plantaginea) Not pictured as I haven't got pictures yet. I should. It's a neat plant. Evergreen, too!

070. Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) One of the prettiest plants I've ever seen, from the shape and texture of the leaves to the purplish pink buds to the bright blue bell-shaped flowers. They're spring ephemerals, though, so they're long gone by now. But will emerge next spring!

071. Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) Only lives for two years and reseeds itself. It's a common weed along sidewalks, but its flowers glow yellow in the evening and often remain in bloom at night.

072. Squirrel Corn (Dicentra canadensis) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet. The leaves are really cute, though.

073. Large Toothwort (Cardamine maxima) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

074. Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) Not pictured as I haven't got any pictures yet.

075. Great Burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) A cultivar, not sure which one. I'll get the wild type if/when I can.

076. American Plum (Prunus americana) I was not expecting her to flower this year! Hopefully she will next year too, and without aphids this time so I can have some plums. :)

077. Smooth Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) So like I said, I do think New England asters are the prettiest of this genus, but smooth asters are very nice in their own way. Tender bluish leaves, and delicate light purple flowers.

078. Sweet Grass (Hierochloe odorata) Not pictured as I haven't got any pictures yet. She only flowered one year. Hasn't since. I won't miss a photo next time.

079. Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum) What's better than pretty flowers? Tasty pretty flowers!

080-081. Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos) Two different cultivars and the red one has died, but I did get my hands on the wild type! That will hopefully bloom this year.

082. Stiff Sunflower (Helianthus pauciflorus subrhomboideus) Holds her own against the much more aggressive Nuttall's sunflower. Sometimes called beautiful sunflower. I don't know how one decides which species of a very showy genus gets that name, but I guess she won out.

083. Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) Another one that was hard to choose a photo of. You just hardly believe they're real!

084. Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris) I planted her where there's a drip from the eavestrough so she can get very wet when it rains. :) She is not a marigold but instead part of the buttercup family.

085. Nuttall's Sunflower (Helianthus nuttallii) Whenever I am expressing frustration about sunflowers, it is almost always this species. lol Very beautiful but very aggressive.

086. Larkspur Violet (Viola pedatifida) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

087. White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

088. Small Sundrops (Oenothera perennis) Not quite as intensely yellow as some of her relatives but still very bright.

089. Bigleaf Aster (Eurybia macrophylla) You generally grow her for foliage rather than her flowers, but flowering she is! Very drought-tolerant, but spreads more readily in less harsh conditions.

090. Bride's Feathers (Aruncus dioicus) Southern Ontario and surrounding area's evolution really went off on the lacy white flowers, and this species' flowers might be the laciest of them all.

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Cornus canadensis (Canadian bunchberry)

About a month ago I was talking to a neighbor about her pink dogwood tree and she showed me a four petaled, white flower in her garden. She said it had just “shown up” last year and wondered if this was a dogwood too. “Oh no,” I said, “dogwoods are either shrubs or small trees. I’ve never seen a dogwood growing as a groundcover before.” 

Of course this conversation raised an element of doubt and as soon as I got home I opened my copy of Plants of Coastal British Columbia (revised edition) and there it was on page 320, Cornus canadensis. A week later I was walking the forest trails in Stanley Park and I found it all over the place. 

This wildflower is native to Canada, Greenland, Northern China, North Korea, Japan, parts of Siberia and a number of US states. Although most dogwoods are shrubs and small trees, two species, Canadian bunchberry and Alaskan bunchberry (Cornus × unalaschkensis) grow between four and eight inches tall.

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Cornus canadensis aka Bunchberry

I've been growing this native plant in my flower bed for at least 3 years as a ground cover and this is the first time it has bloomed.

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White spring flowers

Large-thorned hawthorn (Crataegus macracantha)

Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea)

Canadian anemone (Anemonidium canadensis)

Guelder-rose (Viburnum opulus)

Daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus)

Morrow’s honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii)

White wild indigo (Baptisia alba)

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I’ve got big plans for the front yard. While I’m going to leave some lawn* in the backyard, the front will eventually be completely planted. First, I’m planting a mixed hedge along the foundation. I’m still deciding the exact mix of shrubs for the hedge but I’m currently thinking elderberry (Sambucus canadensis), rough dogwood (Cornus drummondii), American hazelnut (Corylus americana), prairie rose (Rosa arkansana), and maybe chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) or American plum (Prunus americana). Both chokecherry and American plum make me nervous because they tend to get really wide through suckers which might be too much for the area. I’m planting the shrubs half the maximum mature width away from a 3 ft wide pathway around the foundation to hopefully prevent any branches or roots touching the siding or foundation and to allow us to service the utilities in the area.

*By lawn, I mean stuff that looks mostly like grass and stays under 6” tall or can be mowed. I’m going to overseed the existing patchy turf with clover (Trifolium repens) and maybe some tiny native flowers if I can get my hands on some seeds. I’m specifically thinking about fetid marigold (Dyssodia paposa) and curlycup gumweed (Grindelia squarrosa).

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Native planter box update: oops! all palmate coltsfoot edition

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Canadian Bunchberry Cornus canadensis Cornaceae

Photograph taken on June 18, 2023, at Purdon Conservation Area, Lanark Highlands, Ontario, Canada.

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Plants in BWCA this year. Mostly in burn areas with good regrowth of deciduous shrubs and herbatious perennials. Blueberries not good in these areas because they haven't had enough time to establish, I assume. Here's my entire harvest from a south facing hilly island of bushes.

Cornus canadensis bunchberry in heavily used campsite with grass able to mix in.

Pretty sure this is bird cherry. It's a quick one to regrow in burn areas.

The raspberries were at the end but still nice.

Mitchella repens Partridge berry is a tiny viney ground cover. I love finding it near portage trails- so sweet. Need to ID the companion plant w opposite heart shaped leaves.

Lotus flowers at peak. Perfect.

Rhododendron groenlandicum Labrador Tea new to me found on deserted island in lake insula. I knew it was a rhododendron and IDed it later. Common in bogs and wetlands but this was on shore.

Need to ID these seen growing in water on south west sandy shore. Osmunda regalis — royal fern, really common fern in US.

This one had small olive - ish fruit. Did not taste.

Oh no I was afraid of this. It's autumn olive. So invasive and terrible.

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Bunchberry (Cornus Canadensis)