sassafras
Sassafras albidum
Sassafras albidum (sassafras, white sassafras, red sassafras, or silky sassafras) is a species of Sassafras native to eastern North America, from southern Maine and southern Ontario west to Iowa, and south to central Florida and eastern Texas. It occurs throughout the eastern deciduous forest habitat type, at altitudes of sea level up to 1,500 m (5000 feet). It formerly also occurred in southern Wisconsin, but is extirpated there as a native tree.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Medicinal History of the Things Brought from Our West Indies
Nicolás Monardes · 1574 · p.115
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, Vol. 1
Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.182
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.102
De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica
Willem Piso · 1658 · p.174
Christoph Jakob Trew — Uitgezochte planten (1771)
Christoph Jakob Trew · 1771 · p.226
Christoph Jakob Trew — Uitgezochte planten (1771)
Christoph Jakob Trew · 1771 · p.228
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