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Eastern Dogwood
Cornus florida
Eastern Dogwood
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Eastern Dogwood
Imagine a grove of dogwood trees that continues for nine or ten miles. That’s what William Bartram saw along the Alabama River when he traveled through Creek Indian territory in 1775.
His drawing of the dogwood, like so many of his botanical illustrations, reveals both the eye of a trained naturalist and the soul of a poet.
Bartram documented not just the physical characteristics of the tree but something of the wonder he felt when encountering these landscapes.
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