Common Elderberry
Sambucus canadensis
It grows wild in 96 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 8.5 ft to 12 ft tall, 9 ft wide
- Flowers
- White
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Woody roots
- Kind
- Tree, Shrub
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 35 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 3 kinds of native bees
- Birds
- 49 kinds of birds
Grows well with
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Possumhaw Viburnum
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Pink Azalea
Witherod Viburnum
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
Hollow Joe-pye-weed
Cutleaf ConeflowerFacts from the Quercus record for Sambucus canadensis.