Dogwoods are best pollinated when there is a stand of trees close together. The flowers vary in size and so the pollinators need to know where to find the bracts. What also helps is when the flowers are triggered to open, they open quickly, spreading pollen at a high velocity. Large flies, beetles and honey bees are large enough to trigger the action.
Virginia's state flower is the flowering dogwood. It is also their state tree.
the FLOWERING DOGWOOD
the state bird is the cardinal and the flower is the flowering dogwood.
Both North Carolina and Virginia list American Dogwood as their state flower.
Flowering Dogwood
Flowering-dogwoodThe Virginia state tree is the Cornus Florida. It is a flowering dogwood tree. Virginia is the only state that has the same state flower and state tree.
The bird is the Cardinal and the Flower is the Flowering Dogwood in Virginia.
American dogwood. (Cornus florida) is Virginia's state flower. State Tree: Flowering dogwood State Bird: Cardinal
The primary color of a dogwood tree is white, but there are also pink and red ones.
It is the state flower of Virginia, adopted in 1918, and is also North Carolina's state flower, designated in 1941.
Cornus Florida is the flowering dogwood.
The Dogwood flower is a small flower cluster.