Sambucus sibiricaNakai

WFO wfo-0000438433 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sambucus sibirica, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. a Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205806806
Sambucus sibirica, photographed by Marina Potapova
fig. b Marina Potapova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201216028
Sambucus sibirica, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. c Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201186348
Sambucus sibirica, photographed by Lena Perova
fig. d Lena Perova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196240082
Sambucus sibirica, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194756992
Sambucus sibirica, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. f Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194769064
Sambucus sibirica, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. g Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194768510
Sambucus sibirica, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. h Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194769323

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Sambucus sibirica is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, East European Russia AltayAmurBuryatiyaChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaEast European Russia
Native distribution of Sambucus sibirica, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
East European Russia RUE EUROPE

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.

Also published as 2 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.

  • Sambucus buergeriana f. cordifoliata Skvortsov & W.Wang
  • Sambucus racemosa subsp. sibirica (Nakai) H.Hara

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. 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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