Why it’s choice: Bunchberry, the ground-cover member of the dogwood family, is one of the most attractive and useful native plants for the garden. Whether in flower, fruit or simply in its leafy-green ...

Over the weekend — as a one of many gardening-related Mother’s Day presents to myself — I planted seven bunchberry plants, just babies in 4-inch pots. Also known as Cornus canadensis or Cornus ...

The fastest flower in the west, or anywhere else, is a woodland wildflower of North America called bunchberry dogwood, says a research team with a really fast camera. A bunchberry dogwood (Cornus ...

I recently discovered the bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), a ground-hugging dogwood, and could not resist it. The leaves resemble those on their bigger relatives but they are much smaller. The plant ...

This video, which offers a close-up view of the bunchberry dogwood's explosive opening, was shot at 10,000 frames per second. It has been slowed down by a factor of 667 to 15 frames per second. The ...

IT is the fastest pollen gun in the West, or the whole world for that matter. The flower of the bunchberry dogwood bursts open to shoot pollen in just under 0.5 milliseconds - the fastest movement ...