Blossoms that appear in the spring actually developed the summer before and spent the winter nestled inside the bract. The blooms in the spring indicate the beginning of the dogwood tree's reproductive cycle. The tiny yellow flowers in the center are the blossoms that will eventually produce berries and seed. The actual blossoms that produce dogwood seeds are a crown of greenish-yellow florets in the center of the bracts. Just like some flowers , dogwoods may need bees and other insects for pollenation .
Bract color can range from white to pink to an almost red color.
The flowering dogwood C florida has a natural range from Ontario to Mexico, east to Florida and north to Massachusetts. In the northeastern U.S. the dogwood is a shorter tree while in the south it can grow to 40 feet tall. The normal size of a dogwood is 20 to 25 feet. People living in the south will start to see blooms in March while those in the north see blooms in June.