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The last image shows the brown pith that is useful for winter identification when there are no berries present and when the bark appears to be fairly red. Red osier dogwood has white pith.

Smooth stem, finely pubescent in inflorescence, leaves triple veined.

Found this sassafras sapling growing on a southeastern slope of Monument Mountain at about 1500 feet in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Did not know they grew that far north.