The sassafras tree, Sassafras albium, is a popular native tree that can be found growing in wild areas across much of eastern North America, including in Maine, New York, Michigan and Illinois ...

Sassafras in the wild is a medium-sized successional tree, springing up in abandoned fields, disturbed sites and fencerows across most of the eastern half of the U.S. It is fast-growing and long ...

The largest known Sassafras tree in the world is in Owensboro, Kentucky and is over 100 feet high and 21 feet in circumference. Sassafras are very hardy and often found in bottom lands, thus doing ...

Sassafras trees prefer moist, well-drained, acidic soils and grow on a variety of sites, but are best known as pioneering species, found on disturbed sites and able to survive fire, ...

Not many trees have both beautiful fall color in several shades and three types of leaves, all on the same tree. The sassafras tree, (Sassafras albidum), sports an unlobed leaf (football), one ...