American black elderberry
Sambucus canadensis L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.6 m
- wide
- 2.7 m
Viburnaceae
Also called Black elderberry, Common elderberry, Common elder, American elder, Desert elderberry
Formerly Aralia sololensis, Sambucus eberhardtii, Sambucus orbiculata, Sambucus planteriensis, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. America to Venezuela and BoliviaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 3.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 3.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- SAMCAN, SAMNIC, azúmiatl
- Italian
- sambuco canadese
- French
- Sureau du Canada, Sureau blanc
- myn
- shiksh
- Dutch
- Amerikaanse Vlier, Amerikaanse vlier
- Russian
- Бузина канадская
- Czech
- bez kanadský
- German
- Kanadischer Holunder
- Ojibwa
- Bibigwemin (bibigwewanashk)
- Japanese
- アメリカニワトコ
- Chinese (China)
- 加拿大接骨木, 美洲接骨木
- Chinese
- 美洲接骨木, 加拿大接骨木
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Sambucus canadensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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