Learning how to grow sassafras in your backyard is sure to add privacy, structure and color to garden borders. Fortunately for gardeners, this low-maintenance tree is hardy and easy to grow, and ...

Not many trees have both beautiful fall color in several shades and three types of leaves, all on the same tree. The ...

Sassafras helps provide shade, attracts wildlife and more. Here are all the ways sassafras is a blast. ... Fall color is similarly varied on the same tree, from yellow to red to purple.

The bark is strongly ridged and brown or gray in color, but when sliced into, it has a brownish orange color underneath. When the leaves are crushed or the bright green twigs are scraped or the bark ...

The fall color of the Sassafras is outstanding. And a bonus: it is also a host plant for the Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly. The most serious disease to affect it would be laurel wilt which is a ...

Starting in 2019, sassafras trees began wilting and dying in southern Indiana. It was originally thought that laurel wilt, a deadly disease in the southeastern U.S., had made its way to Indiana.

The Geauga Soil and Water Conservation District has unveiled its 2025 Geauga County Big Tree Contest and is currently seeking nominations. The 2025 featured tree species is the Sassafras, which ...