Sambucus Canadensis (American Black Elderberry)

This is a common, well-known native American plant, from five to twelve feet high, with a shrubby stem, filled with a light and porous pith, especially when young.  The bark is rather scabrous and cinereous.  The leaves are nearly bipinnate, antiposed.  The flowers are numerous, white, in very large level-topped, five-parted cymes, and have a heavy odor.  The European Elder, though larger than the American kind, is similar in its general characteristics and properties.