Gray Dogwood

Host for many butterfly and moth species, including the Spring Azure butterfly (Celastrina ladon), Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus), and Hickory Horned Devil / Regal Moth (Citheronia regalis).

Gray dogwood is a thicket-forming, deciduous shrub to 16 ft. in height with greenish-white blossoms in open, terminal clusters. Young twigs are reddish 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.

The fruit of this dogwood is eaten by birds and other wildlife. (From wildflower.org)