Sassafras (disambiguation)

Sassafras is a genus of three species of trees native to North America and Asia.

Sassafras may also refer to:

Plants

 * Atherospermataceae, or Southern Sassafras, a southern hemisphere family of trees
 * Doryphora sassafras, an Australian tree from temperate rainforests
 * Sassafras albidum, the sassafras tree of eastern North America, used in tea, root beer, and gumbo filé powder
 * Cinnamomum oliveri, known as Black Sassafras or Oliver's Sassafras, an Australian rain forest laurel
 * Street slang for Marijuana

Vessels

 * USCGC Sassafras (WLB-401), United States Coast Guard buoy tender

Places

 * Sassafras, New South Wales, a village in New South Wales, Australia
 * Sassafras, Tasmania, a town in northern Tasmania, Australia
 * Sassafras, Victoria, a city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
 * Sassafras, Indiana, an unincorporated community
 * Sassafras, Maryland, a location in the United States
 * Sassafras, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
 * Sassafras River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Delaware, United States
 * Sassafras Mountain, the highest point in the state of South Carolina, United States

Music

 * Sassafras (band), a rock band from South Wales formed in the 1970s
 * Sassafrass!, a 2018 album by Tami Neilson
 * "Sassafras", a song by The Devil Wears Prada from With Roots Above and Branches Below
 * "Sassafras", a song by the Helio Sequence which appears on Com Plex
 * "Sassafras Roots", a song by Green Day from Dookie
 * "Sassafras", a song by Billy Edd Wheeler covered by Van Dyke Parks on Songs Cycled

Animals

 * Sassafras (horse) (1967-1988), a racehorse