It may take a while for me to positively identify this plant also as it is spring and I must wait for more clues. The leaves and flowers...Read More match though. I found this plant near a 100 year old (about) dilapidated farmhouse with Arundo Donax, Privet, daffodils and Irises still remaining at the site. I have transplanted some Arundo Donax and the old daffodils and if it is Gray Dogwood I will transplant some of this too. I'm afraid the privet will never be eradicated, I don't have to transplant it, it makes it on it's own.
I remember selling about 50 plants a season at a larger nursery in Aurora, Illinois, in the early 1980's as potted plants originally comi...Read Moreng in bareroot. It was usually used as a deciduous screen for homeowners. I have seen it wild in some spots in fields and woodland edges in the Chicago area. It gets to be a large shrub and it does send out some ground suckers and can form a colony. It grows about 1.5/ yr. The white fruit is loved by birds and small mammals. This native shrub has handsome foliage that turns a good red fall color, nice white flower clusters in May, and nice smooth gray bark.
It took me awhile to positively id this plant. My dad had told me it was a wild dogwood, I thought he was nuts. Turns out he was right,...Read More in a way. Most dogwood are wild, but this is a different species. The USDA database says this plant is not in Oklahoma, but I am on the border with Arkansas, about 1 mile in.
It may take a while for me to positively identify this plant also as it is spring and I must wait for more clues. The leaves and flowers...Read More
I remember selling about 50 plants a season at a larger nursery in Aurora, Illinois, in the early 1980's as potted plants originally comi...Read More
It took me awhile to positively id this plant. My dad had told me it was a wild dogwood, I thought he was nuts. Turns out he was right,...Read More