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.
School trees:
- White oak ( Quercus alba )
- Pin oak ( Quercus palustris )
- Black oak ( Quercus velutina)
- Blackgum ( Nyssa sylvatica)
- Red maple ( Acer rubrum)
- Norway maple ( Acer platanoides)
- Sugar maple ( Acer saccharinum)
- Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida)
- Mockernut hickory ( Carya tomentosa)
- Green ash ( Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
- Eastern white pine ( Pinus strobus)
Other tress and shrubs:
- White oak ( Quercus alba )
- Scarlet oak ( Quercus coccinea )
- Black oak ( Quercus velutina )
- Blackgum ( Nyssa sylvatica )
- Red maple ( Acer rubrum )
- Mockernut hickory ( Carya tomentosa )
- Blacklocust (
Robinia pseudoacacia )
Survey
by:
Jeff Kirwan
Page update: 10/28/05
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry