Sambucus

Accepted species 23 Documented here 15 Family Viburnaceae

Accepted species 23 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Sambucus racemosa L. 5,219 documented
Sambucus nigra L. 4,723 documented
Sambucus canadensis L. 3,610 documented
Sambucus cerulea Raf. 2,672 documented
Sambucus ebulus L. 779 documented
Sambucus sibirica Nakai 417 documented
Sambucus javanica Reinw. ex Blume 142 documented
Sambucus gaudichaudiana DC. 56 documented
Sambucus australis Cham. & Schltdl. 52 documented
Sambucus australasica (Lindl.) Fritsch 44 documented
Sambucus peruviana Kunth 33 documented
Sambucus sieboldiana (Miq.) Graebn. 12 documented
Sambucus williamsii Hance 12 documented
Sambucus lanceolata R.Br. 5 documented
Sambucus mexicana C.Presl ex DC. 3 documented
Sambucus × strumpfii Gutte 0 below the evidence gate
Sambucus adnata Wall. ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Sambucus africana Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Sambucus kamtschatica E.L.Wolf 0 below the evidence gate
Sambucus palmensis Link 0 below the evidence gate
Sambucus pendula Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Sambucus tigranii Troitsky 0 below the evidence gate
Sambucus wightiana Wall. ex Wight & Arn. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.