Common Elderberry

Sambucus canadensis

Caterpillars for the Wood Thrush

Its flute-like song is fading from our woods. It can't eat your flowers, but it needs the caterpillars native shrubs raise to feed its chicks.

⚠ Supports a species at risk

Who this brings back

Supports 2 species at risk.

Wood ThrushThreatenedBird
Its flute-like song is fading from our woods. It can't eat your flowers, but it needs the caterpillars native shrubs raise to feed its chicks.
Canada WarblerThreatenedBird
A bright yellow warbler in decline. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it feeds its young.

Where it grows

Stream edges, river corridors, woodland margins, and disturbed ground.

Other plants the Wood Thrush needs