Dwarf Elder
Sambucus ebulus L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- —
Viburnaceae
Also called Danewort
Formerly Ebulum humile, Sambucus deborensis, Sambucus humilis, Sambucus paucijuga, and 1 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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Madeira, NW. Africa, Europe to S. TurkmenistanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 99 cm to 2.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Italian
- Sambuco ebbio
- French
- Sureau hièble, Sureau yèble
- Czech
- bez chebdí
- Greek
- Σαμπούκος ο Έβουλος
- Danish
- Sommer-hyld
- Dutch
- Kruidvlier
- Russian
- Бузина травянистая
- Finnish
- ruohoselja
- Japanese
- サンブクス・エブルス
- Portuguese
- Sabugueiro-anão, Ébulo
- Estonian
- väike leeder
- Bulgarian
- Бъзак
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Sambucus ebulus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.