Plant ID

[DC]

Anyone know what this is? It's a volunteer in my wife's cousins garden in Alberta. Doesn't look like anything we have on the coast.

[Pat B]

Nope, fraid not.

[DC]

We've been looking and it looks like Cut-leafed Elderberry. Sambucus nigra laciniata.

[Chippintuff]

Is that a bush or a weed? The berries look good enough to eat.

WA

[DC]

I've just seen the picture. You can make wine from elderberries. I actually just finished a bow from black Elderberry.

[Danzn Bar]

It doesn't look like the Elderberrys we have here in KY.  The ones we have, have a large head of black to deep purple small pea size berries when ripe.  Wine or pancake syrup is make out of them around here.
DBar

[Pat B]

The berries do look like elderberry. I've never seen a cut leaf variety.

[Stoker]

Must be ornamental. Doesn't look like any native species I recognize. I'll check my books tonight. What part of province?
Thanks Leroy

[Chippintuff]

All the elderberries I have seen from Texas to Georgia had umbrella shaped clusters of black berries. The clusters (umbrellas) were 4-8" across. It is possible that is a different variety.

WA

[Zuma]

Reminiscent of ginseng but the leaves are to serrated.
Zuma

[DC]

They are in Millet, Alberta. I don't know how big it is. I've never seen a cut leaf elder either. I'm thinking it's a cultivar. Most of the Google hits are garden centers.

[Stoker]

I don't know.. Marinate with Round-up weekly.. I got the neighbors Sumac in my garden, hate that tree....
Thanks Leroy

[burtonridr]

I'm sure you know this, but just in case, Red elderberries are supposed to be poisonous, blue elderberries are edible.

The berries look like elderberries, but yea the leaf I don't recognize..... Doesn't look like sumac to me.

[Hawkdancer]

Not sure what they are, but if the birds and squirrels aren't eating the berries, leave them alone, too!  Doesn't look like sumac.  Btw, sumac makes good pipe stems, for stone Native American, First Nations style pipes.  Possible those are currant berries.
Hawkdancer

[DC]

I just looked up Red Elderberry because I know people make wine from them. They have to be cooked before eating or they will cause nausea but they were used a lot by the native people. The local  Elderberry are Sambucus racemosa pubens. Red and Black are just a different variant that I'm not going to try and spell. We don't have Sambusa nigra here on the coast. For more info google "Norm's Farms are elderberries poisonous"