Note: Select the link to see a larger photo

A branch of sassafras
Photo credit: Larry Korhnak, University of Florida

Sassafras bark
Photo credit: Larry Korhnak, University of Florida

A young sassafras sapling
Photo credit: Larry Korhnak, University of Florida

Three sassafras leaf shapes
Photo credit: Larry Korhnak, University of Florida

Different leaf shapes of sassafras
Photo credit: Niels Proctor, University of Florida

The wrinkled surface of a leaf
Photo credit: Niels Proctor, University of Florida

Swallowtail butterflies and caterpillars with a sassafras branch
Photo credit: from The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia, 1796

The mitten form of a sassafras leaf
Photo credit: Niels Proctor, University of Florida