Western Blue Elder Berry Hardwood

Its berries are one of the most important source of food for birds in california.

Western blue elder berry hardwood.

Blue elderberry is found from southern british columbia to california. Western blue elderberry is native to a long strip of the west ranging all the way from canada through washington oregon california and into mexico. Sambucus nigra ssp cerulea western blue elder blue elderberry. Western montana gardener and botanist in zone 6a according to 2012 zone update.

Blue elderberry is a deciduous fruit tree native to western north america. The plant has large cymes of small white flowers which will produce blue berries. Elderberry cuttings should be about 6 to 8 inches long and include at least 4 buds. It is very drought tolerant and often grows on dry mountaintops but can also be found in meadows and along streams.

The leaves are pinnate with usually 3 to 9 lanceolate serrated leaflets. Blue elderberry prefers a sunny location along the forest edge. Sometimes tree like blue elderberry grows 6 12 feet 2 4m. An attractive upright growing ornamental and fruiting shrub that will decorate your yard with its very large clusters of creamy white edible flowers followed by abundant crops of tasty powder blue berries.

It thrives on moist soils including those that flood. Whether you ve ordered elderberry cuttings online or cut them fresh from existing plants the process is the same once they re in hand. It is generally found in drier open forests edges and slopes. Generally hardwood plants will be pruned in the winter and conifers will.

Gardening on lakebed sediments with 7 inch silty clay loam topsoil 7 inch clay accumulation layer underneath have added sand in places. Facu it usually occurs in non wetlands but occasionally is found in wetlands. Blue elderberry has previously been called sambucus cerulea sambucus caerulea sambucus mexicana sambucus glauca sambucus neomexicana and several other scientific names. Blue elderberry is a unique and valuable pacific northwest native.

It is native from oregon to baja all the way to western texas. Some of the taxonomic confusion doubtless reflects its wide distribution in western north america from southern canada to northern mexico. For assistance contact dr. Elderberries have been an important food and medicine source for thousands of years but only the blue and purple berried species are edible.

Elderberry apple pie seemed better to most of us but grandpa liked the pie that was straight elderberry. Western blue elder is a shrub or small tree that grows up to 25 feet tall and may have many stems forming dense thickets. It has cream or yellow flowers in the spring and purple berries in the fall. To western montana through west texas.

Start by soaking the cuttings in water for 24 hours to thoroughly rehydrate them.