Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees

School trees:

• Loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda )
• Pin oak ( Quercus palustris )
• Sugar maple ( Acer saccharum )
• Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida )
• Bradford pear ( Pyrus calleryana )
• Blue spruce ( Picea pungens )
• Black locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia )
• Eastern white pine ( Pinus strobus )
• Gray birch ( Betula populifolia )
• Dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostroboides )
• Scots Pine ( Pinus sylvestris )

Saplings:

• Common apple ( Malus spp. )
• Chinkapin oak ( Quercus muehlenbergii )
• Sawtooth oak  ( Quercus acutissima )
• Pin oak ( Quercus palustris )
• Blackgum ( Nyssa sylvatica )
• Red maple ( Acer rubrum )
• Sugar maple ( Acer saccharum )
• Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida )
• Eastern redbud ( Cercis canadensis )
• Purple leaf plum ( Prunus cerasifera )
• Eastern white pine ( Pinus strobus )

Other trees and shrubs:

• Sassafras ( Sassafras albidum )
• Red mulberry ( Morus rubra )
• Black cherry ( Prunus serotina )
• Sweet cherry ( Prunus aviumb )
• Yellow poplar ( Liriodendron tulipifera )
• Tree-of-Heaven ( Ailanthus altissima )

Survey by:
Jeff Kirwan; 7/8/00
Page update: 12/28/05
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry