Nemorosa is a Latin adjective deriving from nemus, meaning forest.. May Night is the cultivar name. Its common name is sometimes given as  meadow sage .. Plant Type: May Night salvia plants are herbaceous perennials. Characteristics of May Night Salvia: May Night salvia was the 1997 Perennial Plant of the Year.ay Night is the cultivar name. Its common name is sometimes given as  meadow sage .. Plant Type: May Night salvia plants are herbaceous perennials. Characteristics of May Night Salvia: May Night salvia was the 1997 Perennial Plant of the Year.
Steam distillation of dried root bark produces an essential oil consisting mostly of safrole that once was extensively used as a fragrance in perfumes and soaps, food and for aromatherapy. The yield of this oil from American sassafras is quite low and great effort is needed to produce useful amounts of the root bark.
Description [edit]. Sassafras albidum is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 15â20 m tall, with a trunk up to 60 cm diameter, and a crown with many slender sympodial branches.The bark on trunk of mature trees is thick, dark red-brown, and deeply furrowed.rom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sassafras albidum (Sassafras, White Sassafras, Red Sassafras, or Silky Sassafras) is a species of Sassafras native to eastern North America, from southern Maine and southern Ontario west to Iowa, and south to central Florida and eastern Texas.