Image Credit: Frank Vincentz
Common Names: Red elderberry
Identification: Grows up to 6 m high having soft pithy twigs having charactreistic warts.
Leaves: Opposite, divided into 5-7 lealets that are pointed and lance shaped, deciduous
Flowers:small and white with unpleasant odor,
Fruit: Red berry-like drupes, not palatable when raw.
Habitat: Stream banks, moist clearings, open forest
Ecology:Bush tits, white crowned sparrows, Song sparrows, flickers and nuthatches forage in this shrub.
Image Credit: Walter Siegmund