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October 22, 2020 by Wren Smith

Virtual Discovery Station: Native Tree Series, Part 5 – Sassafras

Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) has three distinctively different leaves: leaves shaped like spoons, mittens and three-fingered gloves, all on one tree. Look around and you’ll see this small […]

Filed Under: Virtual Discovery Stations Tagged With: Native Trees, Sassafras

October 13, 2020 by Wren Smith

Virtual Discovery Stations: Native Trees

In this eleven part series, Volunteer Naturalist shares history, lore, and information about some of Kentucky’s finest native tree species. Each of these species can be found here at Bernheim. […]

Filed Under: Plants Tagged With: Black Walnut, Native Trees, Pawpaw, Poplar, Sassafras, Spicebush, Tulip Poplar

November 10, 2016 by Kelly Vowels

The Hidden Beauty of the Sassafras

Sassafras is a beautiful tree that is often overlooked in the forest. With winter quickly approaching, colors begin to fade within the forest. Sassafras offers beautiful green twigs, red furrowed […]

Filed Under: Blog, enews3 Tagged With: fall, Sassafras, spring, winter

June 13, 2016 by Wren Smith

Trails from the Bent Twig Trail: The Cycle Continues

They’re back!  The spicebush butterflies have been laying their eggs on the spicebush, Lindera benzoin and sassafras trees Sassafras albidum on the Bent Twig Trail and elsewhere. Some of those eggs have […]

Filed Under: Blog, Tales from Bent Twig Tagged With: Bent Twig, butterflies, butterfly, caterpillars, Sassafras, Spicebush, spicebush swallowtail

September 7, 2015 by Wren Smith

Tales from the Bent Twig Trail: Learning to See

Learning to see involves knowing how and where to look. It requires developing a mental template, or the term I prefer, a searching image. I started to understand this concept […]

Filed Under: Blog, Tales from Bent Twig Tagged With: Bent Twig, butterfly, Caterpillar, instar, larva, Sassafras, Spicebush, spicebush swallowtail

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