Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
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.
Campus Trees:
- Paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
- Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
- Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus)
Saplings:
- Red maple (Acer rubrum)
- Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
- Holly (Ilex spp.)
- Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
- Blue spruce (Picea pungens )
- Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana)
- Black oak (Quercus velutina)
Other Species:
- Tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
- Downy serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea)
- White ash (Fraxinus americana)
- Black walnut (Juglans nigra)
- Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)
- Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus)
- Black cherry (Prunus serotina)
- Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
- Sassafras (sassafras albidum)
Survey by:
Rodney Nice &
Neil Bridge
; 3/31/2001
Page update: 6/3/05
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry