American Elder (Sambucus canadensis)

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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

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

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

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

Types shown: 1 of 11 has its flowers visited by × 10 more types with data for this species

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
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	11	not compared
11 sources · 17 records Cyrille, N., Lelièvre, Y., Dumbardon-Martial, E. et al. Wild insect flower visitor assemblages and resource use in tropical gardens: driven by floral offer, modulated by honeybees. Biodivers Conserv 35, 213 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-026-03395-9. Accessed at <https:/… Published in globalbioticinteractions/cyrille2026 Record contexts (sample): Martinique · 0023-06-09T00:00:00Z; Martinique · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/216526658 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · May 16, 2024 · Human observation; no place published · May 16, 2024 · Human observation Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson. Published in millerse/Flowers-and-insects-lists-of-visitors-to-four-hundred-and-fifty-three-flowers Context: southwestern Illinois, USA · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/216526657 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 16, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123995647 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 24, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/379481331 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 8, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/168115640 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 18, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/291217119 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 20, 2025 · Human observation And 3 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Strangalepta Flower Longhorn Strangalepta abbreviata Cerambycidae	has its flowers visited by	6	not compared
6 sources · 10 records Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/222626403 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 9, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121769636 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 14, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125321840 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 8, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125322362 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 8, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171713321 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 7, 2023 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Margined Leatherwing Chauliognathus marginatus Cantharidae	has its flowers visited by	6	not compared
6 sources · 6 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120608032 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 5, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26953377 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 8, 2019 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52726713 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 11, 2020 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/168115646 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 18, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170923547 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 3, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172745820 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 15, 2023 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Broad-banded Hornet Fly Spilomyia alcimus Syrphidae	has its flowers visited by	5	not compared
5 sources · 5 records Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson. Published in millerse/Flowers-and-insects-lists-of-visitors-to-four-hundred-and-fifty-three-flowers Context: southwestern Illinois, USA · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124407078 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 2, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124422772 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 29, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56160049 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 15, 2020 · Human observation Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

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.