You can find small sassafras trees in early fall along fence-rows, roadsides and woodland edges. They tend to grow in clumpy thickets and display brilliant yellow, orange or red leaves that have three different unique shapes. Large specimens are not all that common but beautiful with crowns mostly found at lower to mid-level heights the forest.
There is a spicy odor from the foliage and twigs and the leaf shapes I've mentioned come in unlobed, mitten shaped and or 3-lobed. Crushed sassafras aroma is one of the most recognized botanical tree scents in the Eastern forests of North America.
