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Sassafras Sassafras

Every rated Sassafras record is fire-resistant — 1 of 3 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 3 records carrying 35 evidence rows from 9 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: Sassafras Sassafras Awaiting evidence Limited evidence 9 sources rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record. ›

Fire-resistant

1 species

Sassfras Fire-resistant Sassafras albidum Consensus · 14 sources Zones 5–5 genus-level claims ↑

Awaiting evidence

1 species

Sassafras tzumu Awaiting evidence Sassafras tzumu Limited evidence · 12 sources genus-level claims ↑

About Sassafras

Corpus context. Sassafras is the directory's #354 largest of 550 genus groups: 3 records carrying 35 evidence rows from 9 cited sources, recorded as tree , hardy across USDA zones 5–5. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

More about Sassafras: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

Where rated Sassafras grow

Tagged as growing in 34 states.

See Sassafras on Grow → · JSON