Sassafras leaves, Blue Ridge Mountains
Sassafras albidum native to eastern North America occurs at mountain altitude. The species are unusual in having three distinct leaf patterns on the same plant: unlobed oval, bilobed mitten-shaped, and trilobed three-pronged; the leaves are hardly ever five-lobed. photographed on Ratcliff Mountain in Waynesville, North Carolina; Haywood County USA. Near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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