Campus Location:

N 36° 37.2
W 80° 23.2

Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees

Campus Trees:

• White pine (Pinus strobus)
• Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
• Blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica)
• Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis)
• White oak (Quercus alba)
• Red maple (Acer rubrum)
• Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
• Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa)
• Flowering cherry (Prunus serrulata)
• Japanese maple (Acer palmatum)
• Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

Spring Branch Trail:

• Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
• Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
• Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
• Red maple (Acer rubrum)
• Black cherry (Prunus serotina)
• White pine (Pinus strobus)
• Northern red oak (Quercus rubra)
• Sweet birch (Betula lenta)
• Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea)
• Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora)

May Apple Trail:

• Tree-of-Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
• Black walnut (Juglans hindsii)
• Pignut hickory (Carya glabra)
• Common apple (Malus spp.)
• American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
• Black oak (Quercus velutina)
• Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana)
• White oak (Quercus alba)
• Red maple (Acer rubrum)
• Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
• Sweet birch (Betula lenta)
• Witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
• Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)

Survey by:
Jeff Kirwan, 6/11/03
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry

Page update: 7/21/03
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry