Wyldewood Elderberry
$19.00 CAD
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American Elderberry
American Elderberry
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American elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) is a spreading North American shrub with broad clusters of small purple black berries. Fully ripe, cooked fruit is used in preserves, baking and juice, while the shrubs provide food and cover for wildlife.
Summer flower clusters stand above the foliage, followed by fruit later in the season. The shrub tolerates occasional wetness and spreads by suckers, making it useful for naturalized hedges where it has room to form a thicket.
Use only fully ripe berries cooked, with stems removed. Unripe berries, leaves and stems are not edible.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 3/4
- Fruit
- Purple black berries about ¼ in acrossUse only fully ripe fruit, and cook it
- Uses
- Preserves, baking and juice
- Growth habit
- Spreads by suckersCan form a thicket
- Mature size
- About 5 to 12 ft tall and 6 to 12 ft wide
- Site and soil
- Sun or part shadeTolerates occasional wetness. Give it room to sucker
Ripening
August to September
For the species in North Carolina
More about this plant
Species and selections
American elderberry forms a spreading shrub rather than a single orchard trunk. Its summer flowers and later berry crop make it useful in a mixed fruit hedge. The named cultivars below offer different habits and harvest seasons within the same species.
Winter hardiness at our nursery
American elderberry is borderline hardy at our Zone 3 nursery and can die back to snow level. We rate it Zone 3/4.
Range & hardinessZone 3/4 · Canadian maps for this plant
Green: provinces with native records
MB · NB · NS · ON · PE · QC
Zone 3 and warmer
Province records show native distribution, not every place the species grows. The hardiness map shows minimum winter hardiness; soil, moisture and summer warmth also matter.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – CanadaPollination
A different American elderberry growing nearby can improve the crop. The selections below are all American elderberry.
| Plant alongside | Pollination requirement |
|---|---|
| Wyldewood Elderberry | A different selection of American elderberry. |
| York Elderberry | A different selection of American elderberry. |
Other American elderberries
Compare named selections of American elderberry.
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Grow from seed
American elderberry seeds produce a varied population, rather than copies of a named cultivar.