Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees (sassafras), upper branches, fall color
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digital color photograph
Born digital
Photographic image
2005 – 2012
Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees (sassafras), image shows fall colored upper branches, leaves are alternate simple ovate to elliptic 3-7" long by 2-4" wide acutish or obtuse cuneate at base bright to medium green above glabrous and glaucous beneath entire mitten-shaped or 3-lobed, mittens occur in both left and right hands, petiole is 0.5-1.5" long, fall color is shades of yellow to deep orange to scarlet and purple