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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Sassafras albidum | Sassafras
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Sassafras occurs from southwestern Maine west to extreme southern Ontario and central Michigan; southwest to Illinois, Missouri, eastern Oklahoma, and eastern Texas; and east to central Florida. It is extinct in southeastern Wisconsin, but its range is extending into northern Illinois [41]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES10 White - red - jack pine FRES12 Longleaf - slash pine FRES13 Loblolly - shortleaf pine FRES14 Oak - pine FRES15 Oak - hickory FRES16 Oak - gum - cypress FRES17 Elm - ash - cottonwood FRES18 Maple - beech - birch FRES19 Aspen - birch STATES : AL AR CT DE FL GA IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MS MO NH NJ NY NC OH OK PA RI SC TN TX VT VA WV ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : ALPO ANTI ASIS BISO BITH BUFF CACO CAHA CALO CATO CHCH COSW CUGA CUIS CUVA DEWA FIIS FOCA FODO GATE GWCA GWMP GRSM HOBE HOSP INDU JOFL MACA MANA MORR NATR OBRI OZAR PRWI RICH SARA SHEN SHIL VAFO WICR BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : NO-ENTRY KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K083 Cedar glades K089 Black Belt K100 Oak - hickory forest K101 Elm - ash forest K104 Appalachian oak forest K106 Northern hardwoods K110 Northeastern oak - pine forest K111 Oak - hickory - pine forest K112 Southern mixed forest SAF COVER TYPES : 14 Northern pin oak 15 Red pine 16 Aspen 20 White pine - northern red oak - red maple 21 Eastern white pine 40 Post oak - blackjack oak 43 Bear oak 44 Chestnut oak 45 Pitch pine 46 Eastern redcedar 50 Black locust 52 White oak - black oak - northern red oak 53 White oak 55 Northern red oak 57 Yellow-poplar 60 Beech - sugar maple 61 River birch - sycamore 64 Sassafras - persimmon 70 Longleaf pine 71 Longleaf pine - scrub oak 75 Shortleaf pine 76 Shortleaf pine - oak 78 Virginia pine - oak 79 Virginia pine 80 Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine 81 Loblolly pine 83 Longleaf pine - slash pine 84 Slash pine 85 Slash pine - hardwood 88 Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak 108 Red maple 110 Black oak SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : The sassafras-persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) cover type is a successional type common on abandoned farmlands throughout its range. Sassafras is a common component of the bear oak (Quercus ilicifolia) type, which is a scrub type on dry sites along the Coastal Plain [41]. In dry pine-oak forests, sassafras sprouts prolifically and is a shrub-layer dominant [72]. It achieves short-term dominance by producing extensive thickets where few other woody plants can establish [32]. In the northern parts of its range, sassafras occurs in the understory of open stands of aspen (Populus spp.) and in northern pin oak (Q. ellipsoidalis) stands [41]. Common tree associates of sassafras not previously mentioned include sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), elms (Ulmus spp.), hickories (Carya spp.), and American beech (Fagus grandifolia). Minor associates include American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), eastern hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana), and pawpaw (Asimina triloba). On poor sites, particularly in the Appalachian Mountains, sassafras is frequently associated with black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), and sourwood (Oxydendron arboreum). In old fields with deep soils, sassafras commonly grows with elms, ashes (Fraxinus spp.), sugar maple (Acer saccharum), yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), and oaks [41]. Sassafras is listed as a subdominant on subxeric and submesic sites in the following classification: Landscape ecosystem classification for South Carolina [51].

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