favicon
Wildflower Identification Website
Search for wildflowers by location, color, shape and time
Click here for Instructions
Login
Link Copied to the Clipboard
blue elderberry
Sambucus cerulea
Sambucus cerulea
blue elderberry moschatel
Sambucus cerulea Adoxaceae
--more--
common names
  blue elderberry
  blue elder
accepted scientific name
  •Sambucus cerulea Raf.
rules for finding collection records
  Sambucus caerulea (728)
  Sambucus cerulea (13147)
  Sambucus nigra caerulea (1927)
  Sambucus nigra cerulea (671)
  Sambucus mexicana (1378)
family name
  • Adoxaceae
Image Author: ©2009 Patrick Alexander
Image License: CC BY-NC-ND
Image Source

Category: Shrubs
Flowers: Five petals, Flat clusters of flowers
Petal colors: color
Flower size is about 0.25 inches
Leaf: Opposite, Compound
Plant Observed 3rd week of January thru 1st week of November

How Likely at this Location (100%)
Name Match (100%)
Plant Showiness (36%)
This is the west coast plant sometimes referred to as Sambucus mexicana and Sambucus nigra subsp. cerulea.
base map where plant found
mag select

Forest
Riparian
Brush
Disturbed
Rocky
Desert
Native Plant Status
native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map native status map
native Native
native Not Present