Taxon: Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees

Common names:

• sassafras   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• silky sassifras   (Source: Zander Ency ) – English
  
• white sassafras   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Fenchelholzbaum   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Sassafras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• sasafrás   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sassafras   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (only oil extracted from the root bark fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide AH 519)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.e.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine [s.], Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa [s.e.], Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sassafras albidum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sassafras albidum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sassafras albidum.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Laurus albida Nutt. (basionym)
  
• (=) Laurus sassafras L.
  
• (≡) Laurus variifolia Salisb.
  
• (=) Sassafras albidum var. molle (Raf.) Fernald
  
• (=) Sassafras officinale Nees & C. H. Eberm.
  
• (=) Sassafras triloba var. mollis Raf.
  
• (=) Sassafras variifolium Kuntze
  

Check other web resources for Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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