{"id":148912,"date":"2025-06-18T04:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=148912"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:49:53","slug":"american-black-elderberry-in-bloom-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/06\/18\/american-black-elderberry-in-bloom-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"American Black Elderberry In Bloom At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I’m sharing two photos of blooming American Black Elderberry<\/span><\/a> that I took last week at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

\"BloomingBlooming American Black Elderberry at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge<\/span><\/p>\n

In Utah I used to enjoy photographing another elderberry species, Blue Elderberry, Sambucus cerulea<\/em>. Here in Arkansas and Oklahoma, the native American Black Elderberry, Sambucus canadensis<\/em>, is what I see and photograph.<\/p>\n

I’ve always loved the delicate, lacy-looking flowers of elderberry shrubs. The berries, or drupes, are pretty too.<\/p>\n

\"AmericanAmerican Black Elderberry in bloom at Sequoyah NWR<\/span><\/p>\n

I had hoped to take more American Black Elderberry photos this spring in softer light. But in the eight days since I took these, the weather hasn\u2019t been cooperating. By the time I get back to the refuge, I think the elderberries will have finished blooming.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to wait and see!<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my wildflower, shrub and tree photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I\u2019m sharing two photos of blooming American Black Elderberry that I took last week at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16525,13973,13974],"tags":[16528,6098,6557,7353,14190,13984,12010,6680,6518,10132,4302,16529,6188,165,5065,4307],"class_list":["post-148912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-black-elderberry","category-oklahoma","category-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-american-black-elderberry","tag-blooming","tag-blooms","tag-blossoms","tag-bottomland-hardwood-forest","tag-bottomlands","tag-elderberries","tag-elderberry","tag-flowering","tag-fruiting-shrub","tag-native","tag-sambucus-canadensis","tag-shrub","tag-spring","tag-white-wildflowers","tag-wildflowers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/american-black-elderberry-blooming-mia-mcpherson-9950.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-CJO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":92322,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/07\/17\/blooming-blue-elderberry\/","url_meta":{"origin":148912,"position":0},"title":"Blooming Blue Elderberry","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"July 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Blue Elderberry shrubs are blooming right now high in the Wasatch Mountains. 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