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Cornus nuttallii
Also called Nuttall's Dogwood, Mountain Dogwood, Western Flowering Dogwood
Pacific dogwood is a small to medium deciduous tree of western North America, grown mainly as an ornamental for its showy white bracts and autumn leaf color. It does best in moist but well-drained, humus-rich, acidic soil and needs protection from hard frost.
Cornus nuttallii, the Pacific dogwood, western dogwood, or mountain dogwood, is a species of dogwood native to western North America. The tree's name used by Halkomelem-speaking nations is Kwi’txulhp.
It occurs from the lowlands of southern British Columbia to the mountains of southern California. There exists an inland population in central Idaho, where it is considered critically imperiled. It occurs predominantly below 1,500 m (4,900 ft) in elevation.
Some Plateau Indian tribes such as the Nlaka'pamux used the bark as a brown dye. Those groups also used the bark for medicinal purposes as a blood purifier, lung strengthener, stomach treatment, laxative, and emetic.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cornus nuttallii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
