Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees

Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees

LAURACEAE

- Laurel family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees

Nomencl. ref.: Syst. Laur. 490. 1836
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Sassafras

English name: silky sassifras

English name: white sassafras

Spanish name: sasafrás

German name: Sassafras

Grown habit: Tree, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Laurus albidus Nutt.
= Laurus sassafras L.
= Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees var. molle (Raf.) Fernald
= Sassafras officinale Nees & Eberm.
= Sassafras sassafras (L.) Karst.
= Sassafras variifolium (Salisb.) Kuntze

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees var. molle (Raf.) Fernald

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Magnoliidae
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Sassafras
Species:

Page counter: 295 ( AVG: 221.98 / 291.019 )

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Sassafras albidum
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Verbania Pallanza, Giardini Botanici di Villa Taranto, VB, Piemonte, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Sassafras albidum
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Sassafras albidum
W.D. Brush - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Sassafras albidum
H. Lanks - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Sassafras albidum
W.D. Brush - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Sassafras albidum
W.H. Shaffer - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Sassafras albidum
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 134.

Sassafras albidum
W.D. Brush - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV), CAN (ON)

Distributional map for Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees
Map for Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees var. molle (Raf.) Fernald [96]
2) Sassafras sassafras (L.) Karst. [90]
3) Sassafras variifolium (Salisb.) Kuntze [149]
4) Satureja acinos (L.) Scheele [253]
5) Satureja brownei (Sw.) Briq. [143]
6) Satureja calamintha (L.) Scheele var. nepeta (L.) Briq. [156]
7) Satureja chandleri (Brandegee) Druce [92]
8) Satureja glabra (Nutt.) Fernald [92]
9) Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch var. diminuta (Simon) Fernald & Wiegand [155]
10) Saussurea viscida Hultén var. yukonensis (A.E. Porsild) Hultén [146]

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