American elderberry is a common, deciduous shrub that lights up our landscape from mid-May through June with huge and profuse clusters of white flowers that form a lacy veil over the shrub.
Each flower is only about ¼ inch across but is held in large, flat-topped or slightly domed-shaped clusters that can be up to 10 inches across, creating an incredibly showy spectacle! The flowers have a light, lemon-like fragrance mixed with a hint of musk and bloom for weeks on end.
Once pollinated, the showy flowers ripen into eye-catching clusters of purplish-black fruit in late summer and fall literally weighing down….
