Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers.
Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin.
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The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier, shrubby willows or sallows, and the like.
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Before I had done with it my ribs showed through my skin and my back was like a red osier basket.
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Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood.
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From my own pasture fence-line will come red osier, dogwood, with its white blooms, its blue berries, its winter stem-coloring, and elderberry.
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C. STOLONIFERA.-RedOsier Dogwood.