Order Cornales / Dogwood Flowers
The dogwood order of flowers, Cornales, is basal among asterids. Cornales is relatively small, but members are morphologically diverse and are cosmopolitan in distribution. Cornales plants are mostly woody with simple or compound leaves, small flowers, floral parts in multiples of four, and generally bisexual. Many of the species of Cornales, like the flowering dogwood and Lindley’s blazing star are of ornamental value.
