Slough Grass vs Gray Dogwood - TreeTime.ca

Slough Grass vs Gray Dogwood

Beckmannia syzigachne

Cornus racemosa

CUSTOM GROW

CUSTOM GROW

Slough Grass
Gray Dogwood

Slough Grass is a hardy grass that will happily grow in any wet soil. It is usually found near water and is common haymaking material or forage.

Slough Grass is also useful for erosion control and land reclamation.

Gray dogwood is a thicket-forming, deciduous shrub with greenish-white blossoms in open, terminal clusters. Young twigs are red and the fruit pedicels remain conspicuously red into late fall and early winter.

Fruit itself is a white, 1/4 in. drupe that usually does not remain on the shrub for long.

Great for naturalizing wild areas, this shrub attracts birds and other wildlife.

Slough Grass Quick Facts

Gray Dogwood Quick Facts

Zone: 1a
Zone: 4a
Height: 0.9 m (3 ft)
Height: 3 m (10 ft)
Spread: 0.5 m (1.5 ft)
Spread: 3 m (10 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: any
Moisture: wet
Moisture: any
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: slow
Life span: short
Life span: medium
Suckering: none
Suckering: medium


Foliage: thin, tubular
Fall colour: deep, reddish puple
Flowers: yellowish, green
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: AB, BC, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS, NB, NL, YT, NT
Native to: MB, ON, QC
Other Names: sloughgrass, western slough grass