Best-known for the tea that pioneers made by boiling its root bark, the aromatic native Sassafras albidum, or sassafras tree, is an interesting, useful and showy addition to central Ohio landscapes.

Root beer, the old-fashioned beverage originally made from the root bark of the sassafras tree, has been a popular non-alcoholic drink since the mid-1800s. And Louisiana residents seem to like it a ...

In the woods near my childhood home grew a cluster of small trees. I only noticed them after my older brother pointed them out to me. He showed me that some of the leaves were shaped like mittens, but ...

Once in awhile, on the way down the lane, my granddad would stop the truck, reach out the window and break off some twigs of sassafras. I don’t remember the root beer taste; it was more the novelty of ...

Some friends, aware that I liked sassafras tea, brought me some sassafras root one recent day. It was probably two feet long with a large amount of bark still attached, and even at the rate that I can ...

Sassafras has historically been considered a medicinal herb—used to treat fevers, inflammation, scurvy, dysentery, and sexually transmitted diseases, among other things—in addition to being used as a ...

Root beer dates back to colonial times, where roots of plants made a low-alcohol beverage. Peter Bahlawanian of Spice Station describes what is needed for a traditional root beer, including sassafras, ...