I can see ❀ flowering dogwood Cornus florida

Part of dogwood  genus Cornus in family Cornaceae.

Native to 🇺🇸 USA Midwest, mid-Atlantic and South, extending into southern 🇨🇦 Canada, and into 🇲🇽 México.  🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key), 🗺 map (North America, Central America),   🗺 today + with climate change (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).

🏛🌳︎ State tree of Missouri, Oklahoma and Virginia.  🏛❀ State flower of Virginia and North Carolina.

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)

Cornus hosts caterpillars of 121 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas. 🌳︎🐝︎ Trees for Bees

This plant is known to be a host for (in areas where invasive) 🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF)  Lycorma delicatula.

Use as small tree is a small yard (Pennsylvania).  (page 54)

Scores moderate (5 out of 10) on the OPALS™ Ogren Plant Allergy Scale.

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🏠︎ 🌳︎ broadleaves, ╫ opposite, 🍁︎🍂︎ simple 🌳︎ 🍁︎🍂︎ 📅︎ broadleaves, a month or more after most other deciduous plants 🍃︎ dropped their leaves, dormant season branches ╫ opposite sustainable landscaping and gardening with native plants

northern or hardy catalpa  Catalpa speciosa eastern redbud  Cercis canadensis dogwood  genus Cornus
Japanese knotweed  Fallopia japonica

🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF)  Lycorma delicatula