Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
| elevation: | 220 feet |
| latitude: | N36 42.970' |
| longitude: | W77 31.765' |
| school built: | 1998 |
The Virginia Forestry Educational Foundation provides
this 92 page book free to students who learn ten trees. Contact your
4-H Extension Agent
for details.
School trees:
- Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua )
- Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda )
- Willow oak ( Quercus phellos )
- Red maple ( Acer rubrum)
- Sugar maple (Acer saccharum )
- Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida )
- Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana )
- Black cherry (Prunus serotina )
- Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana )
- Black willow (Salix nigra )
- Green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica )
- Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus )
- River Birch (Betula nigra )
- Japanese maple (Acer palmatum )
- Tamarack (Larix laricina )
- Royal paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa )
- Weeping willow (Salix babylonica )
- Northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis )
Other Trees and Shrubs:
- Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua )
- Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda )
- Willow oak ( Quercus phellos )
- Black cherry (Prunus serotina )
- Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera )
- Privet (Ligustrum spp. )
- Shining sumac (Rhus copallina )
Survey
by:
J. Kirwan;
7/21/2000
Page update: 12/27/05
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry