As part of the Cornaceae family, which includes 10 genera and 90 species of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, flowering dogwood is a small understory tree that can have singular or multiple trunks ...

Flowering plants, or angiosperms, make up about 90% of all living plant species, including most food crops. In the distant past, they outpaced plants such as conifers and ferns, which predate them ...