| Description | A nice compact form with red stems. |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (KOR-nus) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full to partial sun |
| Moisture | full to partial sun |
| Soil & Site | average to moist to wet |
| Growing Media | average to swampy |
| Flowers | white flowers (flat topped cymes) bloom in the late spring |
| Fruit | white to whitish blue drupes |
| Leaves | simple, opposite, green, ovate to elliptic, veins run almost parallel to the edge, reach about 2 by 4 inches |
| Stems | red |
| Dimensions | 5-6 by 5-6 feet, seems to be true size for the plants I have grown |
| Maintenance | I like to cut out 1/2 to a 1/3 of the old stems and cut the remaining stems back 50%. The plant can also be sheared down flat to the ground. Both of these methods will promote new colorful red stems. |
| Propagation | softwood cuttings |
| Cultivar Origin | Introduced by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum |
| Misc Facts | This is a medium-large shrub best used in berms, borders, wet areas and as the main plant on a corner planting. It is too large of a shrub for foundation plantings. |
| Notes & Reference | #1-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #175-Dogwoods (Paul Cappiello and Don Shadow), #3-The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs) |
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