Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees

Campus Trees:

• Red maple ( Acer rubrum )
• Sugar maple ( Acer saccharinum )
• Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida )
• White ash ( Fraxinus americana )
• Holly ( Ilex spp. )
• Crabapple ( Malus spp. )
• Norway spruce ( Picea abies )
• American sycamore ( Platanus occidentalis )
• Pin oak ( Quercus palustris )
• Willow oak ( Quercus phellos )
• Baldcypress ( Taxodium distichum )
• Chinese elm ( Ulmus parvifolia )
  

Saplings:

• Norway maple ( Acer platanoides )
• Red maple ( Acer rubrum )
• Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida )
• American sycamore ( Platanas occidentalis )

Other Trees and Shrubs:

• Tree of heaven ( Ailanthus altissima )
• Mimosa ( Albizia julibrissin )
• Yellow-poplar ( Liriodendron tulipifera )
• Shortleaf pine ( Pinus echinata )
• Virginia pine ( Pinus virginiana )
• Black cherry ( Prunus serotina )
• Black locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia )
  

Survey by:
Jeff Kirwan, 6/4/01
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry

Page update: 5/16/05
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry