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The late bloom is the point

sometimes shallowly three-lobed and carried on long stalks

self-supporting stems and clean

Chinquapin is the chestnut family's word for a small sweet nut

The wild azaleas of the Southern woods have been admired for generations as bush honeysuckles

Sambucus canadensis prophouse-on-the-horizon The late bloom is the3 Gallon, pick up only. Some plants seem woven into the memory of the land, and Sambucus canadensis, the American elderberry, is one of them. Found along fence rows, creek banks, and the forgotten edges of old fields, this native shrub has long kept company with the settler's dooryard and the woodland wanderer's path alike, as useful as it is familiar. A generous grower, the elderberry rises in loose thickets of arching canes, crowned in early summer