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5. Leaflets with sharply incurved teeth along margins, often 

 hairy on midrib beneath; stipules thin, straplike, to % inch 

 long, often callus-tipped; older branches dark brown, warty; 

 "berries" red; "seeds" (nutlets) smooth; shrubs with 

 spreading stems, forming loose, open clumps; woods along 

 Cascades, Oreg., Wash., not reported from Wallowa or 

 Blue Mts.; type locality, near Crater Lake, Oreg. 



western red elder (Sambucas leiosperma). 2[ 

 Leaflets entire or faintly toothed, symmetrical at base, abruptly 

 pointed at tip, lance- to egg-shaped or reversely lance- to 

 reversely egg-shaped; pith small; fruits (samaras) dry, seedlike, 

 winged from to]), in loose branched clusters at leaf scars of 

 preceding year, on female trees; common in river valleys, w., 

 rare e. of Cascades, Oreg., Wash. 



Oregon ash (Fraxinus latifolia). 



Oregon ash 



Western red elder 



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21 Field notes arc needed to determine relationship between western red elder 

 and Pacific red elder (Sambucus callicarpa); the latter is typically a tall shrub or 

 small tree, shade tolerant and growing with the redwoods of the California Coast 

 Ranges. Pacific red elder was originally described by Dr. E. L. Greene (Flora 

 Franciscana, p. 343. 1802.) as having light brown, flaky rather than fissured 

 bark, white pith, and the young twigs and leaves with sparse, short, stiff hairs. 

 Stipules are described as straplike, the leaves with 2-5 pairs of leaflets which are 

 often with conspicuous stipellae, or the later leaves on sucker shoots as being 

 doubly compound (bipinnate). The flowers were noted as white, the fruit bright 

 red and in small but broad and flat-topped clusters. Some authors regard these 

 two red-berried elders as a single species, S. callicarpa. 



