Red-berried elder
Sambucus racemosa L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.5 m
- wide
- —
Viburnaceae
Also called Red elderberry, Red Elder, American red elderberry, Red-berried Elder
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
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. America, Europe to N. CaucasusKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 4.5 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 5–5 m; Plants for a Future 4–4 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, creamRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Roter Holunder, Hirsch-Holunder, Traubenholunder
- root
- SAMRAC, Կտտկենի սովորական, hubuhwiyha
- Russian
- Бузина обыкновенная, Бузина красная
- Polish
- Bez koralowy
- Finnish
- terttuselja
- Swedish
- druvfläder
- French
- sureau de montagne, sureau rameux, sureau rouge
- Spanish
- saúco rojo
- Czech
- bez červený
- Chinese
- 歐洲接骨木, 紅果接骨木
- Norwegian Bokmål
- rødhyll, raudhyll
- Danish
- Drue-hyld
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
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Sambucus racemosa (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.