山茱萸的花朵单个较小且不显眼，具有四片绿色带黄色的花瓣（不是苞片）。大约有20朵小花密集地排列成一个圆形伞状的花序。这个中央的花序被四片显眼的白色、粉色或红色的大苞片（不是花瓣）所包围。
1. An individual flowering dogwood is small and inconspicuous, with four greenish-yellow petals. Densely clustered in its center are about 20 tiny flowers in a round umbrella-shaped inflorescence, (which are) surrounded by four noticeable bracts that are white, pink or red in color.
2. An individual flowering dogwood is small and inconspicuous, with four greenish-yellow petals, in the center of which clustered twentyish tiny flowers in a round umbrella-shaped inflorescence, surrounded by four noticeable bracts that are white, pink or red in color.
