Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
| elevation: | 710 feet |
| latitude: | N39 06.168' |
| longitude: | W78 09.420' |
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:
- Pin oak (Quercus palustris )
- Red maple (Acer rubrum )
- Sugar maple (Acer saccharum )
- Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida )
- Black cherry (Prunus serotina )
- Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis )
- Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana )
- Purple leaf plum (Prunus cerasifera )
- River birch (Betula nigra )
Additional Natural Area Species:
- White oak (Quercus alba )
- Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea )
- Black oak (Quercus velutina )
- Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana )
- Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus )
Other Trees and Shrubs:
- Hackberry ( Celtis occidentalis)
- Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana )
- Green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica )
- Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia )
- Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus )
Survey
by:
Jeff Kirwan; 7/14/00
Page update: 12/21/05
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry