DCHP-3

red dog-willow

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shrub, Cornus stolonifera, with conspicuous red stems, the inner bark of which was often used in the making of kinnikinik (def. 1).

Quotations

1937
The tearing winds of September plucked them [leaves] from swamp-willow, red-dog willow--from which, perhaps, the first tobacco was made--grey wolf-berry, high-bush cranberry . . . and poplars black and white.