Sassafras: A Neglected Native Ornamental
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common (and generic) name is of obscure origin, but it was used by the French settlers in Florida as early as the sixteenth century. The tree is characteristically a plant of forest margins and clearings, but it also is often somewhat weedy, appearing in old fields, hedgerows, and along roadsides where it rapidly forms clumps by means of suckers and stolons. It is often thought of as being a rather small tree, but in the southern
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