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Text Box: This member of the honeysuckle family is a shrub that grows up to thirteen feet high, with smooth, gray bark. Text Box: In late spring or early summer, the elder bears tiny, branched, white, lacy flowers in flat-topped to slightly rounded clusters (panicles) that spread over 6" across. Text Box: The tiny, spherical, juicy, purple-black seedy berries are hardly more than 1/8" across. They grow in branched clusters, like the flowers, ripening from mid-summer to early fall, in quantities that weigh down the branches.

Common Elderberry
(Sambucus canadensis)
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