Editing Sassafras (section)

== Distribution and habitat ==
Many [[Lauraceae]] are aromatic, [[evergreen]] trees or shrubs adapted to high rainfall and humidity, but the genus ''Sassafras'' is [[deciduous]]. Deciduous sassafras trees lose all of their [[leaves]] for part of the year, depending on variations in [[rain]]fall.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Physiology of woody plants|last1=Pallardy |first1=Stephen G. |date=2010|publisher=Elsevier |last2=Kozlowski |first2=T. T. |isbn=9780080568713 |edition=3rd |location=Amsterdam|page=75|oclc=228148187}}</ref> In deciduous tropical Lauraceae, leaf loss coincides with the [[dry season]] in tropical, subtropical and arid regions.

Sassafras is commonly found in open woods, along fences, or in fields. It grows well in moist, well-drained, or sandy loam soils and tolerates a variety of soil types, attaining a maximum in southern and wetter areas of distribution.<ref name=Small2013>{{cite book |last=Small |first=Ernest |date=September 23, 2013 |title=North American Cornucopia: Top 100 Indigenous Food Plants |publisher=CRC Press |pages=603–606 |isbn=978-1-4665-8592-8 }}</ref>

''Sassafras albidum'' ranges from southern Maine and southern Ontario west to Iowa, and south to central Florida and eastern Texas, in North America. ''S.&nbsp;tzumu'' may be found in Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang, China.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wiersema |first1=John |last2=León|first2=Blanca|date=February 26, 1999 |title=World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference |publisher=CRC Press |page=616 |isbn=978-0-8493-2119-1 }}</ref> ''S.&nbsp;randaiense'' is native to Taiwan.<ref name="Nieetal2007">{{cite journal |last1=Nie |first1=Z.-L. |last2=Wen |first2=J. |last3=Sun |first3=H. |year=2007 |title=Phylogeny and biogeography of ''Sassafras'' (Lauraceae) disjunct between eastern Asia and eastern North America |journal= Plant Systematics and Evolution |volume=267 |issue=1–4 |pages=0378–2697 |doi=10.1007/s00606-007-0550-1 |bibcode=2007PSyEv.267..191N |citeseerx=10.1.1.669.8487 |s2cid=44051126 }}</ref>