Sambucus ebulusL.

Dwarf Elderdanewort, dwarf elderdwarf elderberry

WFO wfo-0000439387 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sambucus ebulus, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205225131
Sambucus ebulus, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. b Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204824667
Sambucus ebulus, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. c Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204421366
Sambucus ebulus, photographed by Donald Davesne
fig. d Donald Davesne, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203358933
Sambucus ebulus, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. e Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199100769
Sambucus ebulus, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. f Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197191257
Sambucus ebulus, photographed by Liubov Ilminska
fig. g Liubov Ilminska, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198915696
Sambucus ebulus, photographed by Анна Кириченко
fig. h Анна Кириченко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194643570

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Native range 38 botanical countries

Regions where Sambucus ebulus is native: Algeria, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaIranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanAlbaniaAustriaBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKritiKrymNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Sambucus ebulus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 598 in flower of 1,180 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Sambucus ebulus observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 598 of 1,180 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ebulum humile (Mill.) Garcke
  • Sambucus humilis Mill.
  • Sambucus paucijuga Steven
  • Viburnum ebulus (L.) Martinovský

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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