Scientific name: Cornus sanguinea L.
Common name: Dogwood
Description
Habit: A hairy woody shrub, to 4 m high.
Leaves: Opposite, softly hairy when young, leaf-stalk about 5 mm; oval, entire, pointed, with 3-5 pairs of lateral veins, 4-8 cm long.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 9-11 mm across, in terminal umbel-like panicles; sepals, petals and stamens 4; corolla broadly spreading; style 1, ovary inferior, 2-celled.
Fruits: A purplish-black, 5-8 mm, berry-like drupe, with 1 2-celled stone.
Twigs: First years twigs dark red in winter.
Habitat: Hedges and rocky places on the limestone.
Distribution: Rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No