I wondered if anyone also noticed a great expansion of Sassafras albidum stems this year. It has been a very wet year in the northeast which I’m sure is part of it. I mostly observe in the conservation lands of inner Boston suburbs, where sassafras plants are relatively rare.
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Concerning this year’s crop of new sassafras seedlings, it seems to me like any other year (at least in the places I frequent in Connecticut) What I have noticed though is a proliferation of second year trees. In some spots it’s almost a monoculture of them. I assume this is due to 2021 being incredibly wet in New England, and that translated into a bumper crop of sassafras fruit that germinated in 2022.
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I actually am thinking these are clonal sprouts from roots as opposed to seedlings. In my own yard where I planted a sassafras many years ago which has not bloomed, I am also seeing these young stems.
I’m also seeing a few on the east side of the Connecticut river, in areas you wouldn’t have expected.
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Cool. I’m convinced I’m seeing something different this year.
Interesting to keep your eye on them. I’m wondering whether in the areas I am seeing them whether they might give some invasives a run for their money.
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