Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
Elevation |
1090' |
Latitude: |
N 38 degrees 37' 39.5” |
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 )
- Paper Birch ( Betula papyrifera )
- Redbud ( Cercus canadensis )
- Flowering Dogwood ( Cornus florida )
- White Spruce ( Picea glauca )
- Sweet Cherry ( Prunus avium )
- Callery Pear ( Pyrus calleryana )
- Weeping Willow ( Salix babylonica )
School saplings:
- Red Maple ( Acer rubrum )
- Redbud ( Cercus canadensis )
- Flowering Dogwood ( Cornus florida )
- White Spruce ( Picea glauca )
- Callery Pear ( Pyrus calleryana )
- Black Oak ( Quercus velutina )
Other trees and shrubs:
- Red Maple ( Acer rubrum )
- Tree-of-Heaven ( Ailanthus altissima )
- Pignut Hickory ( Carya glabra )
- White Ash ( Fraxinus americana )
- Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana )
- Blackgum ( Nyssa sylvatica )
- Eastern White Pine ( Pinus strobus )
- Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)
- White Oak ( Quercus alba )
- Post Oak ( Quercus stellata )
- Black Locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia )
Survey
by:
Rodney Nice; 1/13/02
Page update: 2/21/06
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry