title: Sassafras (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  