🪶Indigenous / Native American
Sassafras
Sassafras albidum
About Sassafras
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American tradition to help with Arthritis, Skin Health, Detox, and Fever. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
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.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both