Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Sambucus canadensis L.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Sambucus canadensis
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
L.
Common names
American Elder, common elderberry, American Black Elderberry, American elderberry, Canada elderberry, Canadian elder, Sweet Elder, black elderberry, common elder, desert elderberry, elderberry, white elder
Names in other languages (34)American Elder (EN); Kanadischer Holunder (DE); Sauco de Canada (ES), Amerikaanse vlier, Bibigwemin (bibigwewanashk), Kanadese vlier, Kanadischer Holunder, Otgoʔdaʔgónah, Pied de Sureau, Sureau du Canada, Tilo, Ysgaw America, Ysgawen America, Ysgawen Borffor, baza kanadská, bez kanadský, canadisk hyld, chijilté, coskelepv, echoskelepv, kanadafläder, kanadai bodza, kanadanselja, kanadinis šeivamedis, kondémbasi, sambuco canadese, shiksh, sirop blanc, sureau blanc, Бузина канадская, Бузина канадська, พวงไข่มุก, ᎪᏒᎦ, アメリカニワトコ, 美洲接骨木, 캐나다딱총나무
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Dipsacales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Viburnaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Sambucus
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
canadensis
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Sambucus canadensis
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 10:45.
Photo of Sambucus canadensis L.
Photo: Josiah Londerée · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
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Photo of Sambucus canadensis L.
Photo: Niyan Shehan · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 10:45.

Interacciones documentadas

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A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 11 of 11 is a host of × interacts with (this species is the record's destination) × has its flowers visited by × is eaten by × interacts with (this species is the record's origin) × is visited by × is adjacent to × is a mutualist of × is pollinated by × has as a parasite × is a symbiont of ×

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is a host of 174 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Puccinia bolleyana Pucciniaceae is a host of 264 not compared
Microsphaera grossulariae Erysiphaceae is a host of 246 not compared
Septoria sambucina Mycosphaerellaceae is a host of 93 not compared
Puccinia sambuci Pucciniaceae is a host of 61 not compared
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interacts with 152 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Zephyr Metallic-Sweat Bee Lasioglossum zephyrum Halictidae interacts with 50 no location
Elder Aphid Aphis sambuci Aphididae interacts with 26 not compared
Puccinia sambuci Pucciniaceae interacts with 26 not compared
Halictid Bees Halictidae Halictidae interacts with 22 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at family level.
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Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 115 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae has its flowers visited by 11 not compared
Strangalepta Flower Longhorn Strangalepta abbreviata Cerambycidae has its flowers visited by 6 not compared
Margined Leatherwing Chauliognathus marginatus Cantharidae has its flowers visited by 6 not compared
Broad-banded Hornet Fly Spilomyia alcimus Syrphidae has its flowers visited by 5 not compared
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is eaten by 53 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus Fringillidae is eaten by 4 not compared
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae is eaten by 4 not compared
Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus Cardinalidae is eaten by 3 not compared
Hitched Arches Melanchra adjuncta Noctuidae is eaten by 3 no location
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interacts with 45 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
American Elder Sambucus canadensis Adoxaceae interacts with 3 not compared
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae interacts with 2 not compared
no name interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes no name for this organism.
no name interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes no name for this organism.
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is visited by 45 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
2-spot Ladybird Adalia bipunctata Coccinellidae is visited by 8 not compared
Margined Leatherwing Chauliognathus marginatus Cantharidae is visited by 6 not compared
Two-horned Treehopper Stictocephala diceros Membracidae is visited by 5 not compared
Asian Lady Beetle Harmonia axyridis Coccinellidae is visited by 4 not compared
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is adjacent to 21 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Microsphaera grossulariae Erysiphaceae is adjacent to 22 not compared
Cercospora depazeoides is adjacent to 17 not compared
Puccinia bolleyana Pucciniaceae is adjacent to 17 not compared
Ascochyta wisconsina Didymellaceae is adjacent to 12 not compared
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is a mutualist of 13 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus Apidae is a mutualist of 1 not compared
Tachytes chrysopyga obscurus Crabronidae is a mutualist of 1 not compared
Eastern Catkin Fly Brachypalpus oarus Syrphidae is a mutualist of 1 not compared
Scenopinus nubillipes is a mutualist of 1 not compared
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Pollination

is pollinated by 13 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species. «Visits the flowers of» is a different term and a different block: a visitor is not a pollinator, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Eastern Catkin Fly Brachypalpus oarus Syrphidae is pollinated by 1 not compared
Little Ebony Bug Corimelaena pulicaria Thyreocoridae is pollinated by 1 not compared
Anthrenus castaneae Dermestidae is pollinated by 1 not compared
Scenopinus nubillipes is pollinated by 1 not compared
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has as a parasite 1 organism

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Galeopsomyia epidius Eulophidae has as a parasite 1 no location
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is a symbiont of 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Fungi Including Lichens Fungi is a symbiont of 3 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at kingdom level.
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Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.