Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
Elevation |
1196' |
Latitude: |
N 38 degrees |
Longitude: |
W 78 degrees |
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:
- Red maple ( Acer rubrum )
- Sugar maple ( Acer saccharum )
- White ash (Fraxinus americana)
- Black walnut (Juglans nigra)
- Norway spruce ( involucrata )
- Pin oak ( Picea abies )
- Northern white cedar ( Thuja occidentalis )
- Siberian elm ( Ulmus thomasii )
Saplings:
- Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida )
- Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
- Cucumbertree ( Magnolia acuminata )
Other trees and shrubs:
- Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis )
- Black walnut (Juglans nigra)
- Eastern redcedar ( Juniperus virginiana )
- Bigtooth aspen ( Populus grandidentata )
- Black locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia )
Survey
by:
Rodney Nice; 1/13/2002
Page update: 2/21/06
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry