Yet despite their beauty, not all dogwood trees are beneficial. Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) is actually an invasive plant. The kousa dogwood tree is among one of the shorter types of dogwoods ...

While as many as 60 species of trees and shrubs are in the genus Cornus, the most common locally are our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) and the nonnative kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).