NONNATIVES Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa Sutherland Gold): a relative of native elderberry, with feathery, golden foliage.

Sambucus racemosa is a species of elderberry known by the common name Red Elderberry.

Several hardwood trees round out holes in the forest, including sugar maple, hackberry, basswood, and black cherry, along with red elderberry shrubs.

Numerous rare plants and animals are found here, including Black Bear, Red Elderberry and Hobblebush.

Sambucus callicarpa (Pacific Coast Red Elderberry; west coast of North America)

There occurs: daphne mezereum, red elderberry, hazel, platanthera bifolia, sweet woodruff, herb paris, cranberry, wood sorrel, chickweed wintergreen, Common Cow-wheat and lily of the valley.

It is lined on both sides with trees and bushes of various species including evergreens, pin cherries, choke cherries, saskatoon berry trees, mountain ashes (Rowan), red elderberries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries and wild roses.

Midsummer sees vast amounts of white, sweetly-scented elder blossom on many a field hedge, and this can be turned into elder champagne, a heady, fragrant sparkling white wine, to be followed by the very dark red elderberry wine made later in the year.

Sambucus racemosa (European Red Elder or Red-berried Elder; northern Europe, northwest Asia)