Old dogwood flowering head, showing flowers, and chewed bracts

I've never seen dogwood bracts chewed (I guess) like that. I suppose this was done by an insect. Bracts are leaves modified in col...

Pink dogwood flowering head, seen from side

A flowering head on our pink dogwood ( Cornus florida ) tree, with other such in the background. The four pink (or, for most trees, wh...

Early pink dogwood flower heads

Flowering heads of pink dogwood tree. The pink and white objects are not petals, but bracts -- modified leaves. The actual flowers are...