Dogwood Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Dogwood (Cornus florida), the flowering dogwood, is a small deciduous tree of the dogwood family, Cornaceae, native to the understory of eastern North American forests from Maine and Ontario south to Florida and west to Texas, and the state tree of Virginia and Missouri. It grows 5 to 10 meters with a low, spreading crown, opposite oval leaves that turn red-purple in autumn, and bark broken into small, square, alligator-hide blocks. In spring each branch tip carries what looks like a single white or pink flower; the four showy petals are really bracts around a cluster of tiny true flowers, followed by glossy scarlet berries. We extract the dried bark.