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:
- Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum )
- Foster's holly ( Ilex xattenuata )
- American holly (Ilex opaca)
- Live oak (Quercus virginiana )
- Post oak (Quercus stellata )
- Willow oak (Quercus phellos)
- Southern red oak (Quercus falcata)
- Amur maple (Acer ginnala )
- Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana )
- Viburnum spp. ( )
- Rose-of-Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus )
- Flowering cherry (Prunus serrulata )
- Redbud (Cercis canadensis )
- River birch ( Betula nigra )
Ballfield Trees:
- Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)
- Sweetgum ( Liquidambar styraciflua )
- Red maple (Acer rubrum)
Survey by:
Jeff
Kirwan, 11/15/07
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry
Page update: 11/29/07
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry