I've just returned from Western Quebec where I observed some plants I cannot identify: 1. Tall shrub with feathery flower 2. Red-stemmed, possibly climbing 3. Red-berry producing small tree-like shrub 4. Dark-red leafed, about 30 inches high
1. Aruncus, a goat's-beard. 2. Looks like a hawthorn, Crataegus sp. 3. Some kind of elderberry, Sambucus. Were these in a gardening situation?
Yes, all found in a garden that was planted by previous owners of cottage near Shawville QC. No. 1 does look like goat's beard. I thought no. 3 was an elderberry but it's different than the one I know. I think you are right. The leaf doesn't look right for no. 2 to be a hawthorne, but you could be right about that too.
Black cohosh (Actaea [Cimicifuga]) was my first thought for number 4 as well. I think that last magenta flower is Physostegia.