Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers.
European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers.
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Examples for "red osier "
Examples for "red osier "
1 The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier , shrubby willows or sallows, and the like.
2 Before I had done with it my ribs showed through my skin and my back was like a red osier basket.
3 Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood.
4 From my own pasture fence-line will come red osier , dogwood, with its white blooms, its blue berries, its winter stem-coloring, and elderberry.
5 C. STOLONIFERA.-RedOsier Dogwood.
1 Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood .
2 C. STOLONIFERA.- RedOsier Dogwood.
1 He was lying under a group of giant walnut-trees, whose boles were sheltered from the road by a natural hedge of red dogwood and brambles.
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