Sassafras Tree
The Sassafras tree, Sassafrax variifolium, also known as the Sassafrac, Saxifrac, Smelling Stick, Aguetree, and Cinnamonwood tree.
The production of sassafras oil by distillation of the root and root bark is a small industry in the southeastern section of the country.
Leaves are a medium green and turn orange, red, or yellow in fall.
Sassafras is a native tree, growing in rich woods from southern Maine to Ontario, Michigan, and Kansas and south to Florida and Texas.
This widespread Eastern U.
S. native is ideal for naturalistic landscaping.
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Soldier beetles will take on almost all destructive bugs, like cankerworms, caterpillars, white grubs, slugs, moths, grasshoppers, aphids, mites, and cutworms.
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