I am not sure if this is a tree or a shrub but it is fast growing. I need to know if it is a good one to have growing where it is growing. I am not sure if I planted it or if the birds did. Can anyone please ID this for me? Thanks!

Makes me think of pokeweed, maybe because of the dark stems.... but not at all positive about that. However, fast growing fits!

Thanks Kyla, I may have to take a sample of it to our extension office and see if they can tell me what it is. I will have to post a picture of it in the area where it is. Depending on what it is and how big it will get, I may not want it where it is.

It is opposite leafed compound leaf plant which makes it not any tree that I know of. I am thinking a shrub and I was wondering if you had planted any elderberry plants? The leaf looks almost a little too wide to me, but it is the right shape. With the new cultivars being sold some might not be quite exactly what we are expecting.

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Press the leaves in your hands, unpleasant smells

Have you planted any type of Weigela?

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clkeiper said:It is opposite leafed compound leaf plant....

That what I was thinking I could see too. That narrows the field quite a bit. Possibilities are elderberry, ash, boxelder or Phellodendron.

Can you take off one of the compound leaves with the most leaflets and set it on a piece of blank white paper and take a picture of just that?