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 Campus:
- White oak (Quercus alba)
- Pin oak (Quercus palustris)
- Black oak (Quercus velutina)
- American holly (Ilex opaca)
- Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
- Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
- Ginkgo (ginkgo biloba)
- Common juniper (Juniperus communis)
- Mimosa (Albizia julibrissin)
- Ornamental Holly (Ilex cornuta)
- Flowering Crab apple (Malus spp.)
- American boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)
- Leyland cypress (x Cupressocyparis leylandii)
Environmental Study Lab :
- Sweetgum ( Liquidambar styraciflua )
- Southern red oak (Quercus falcata)
- Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea)
- Post oak (Quercus stellata)
- Black oak (Quercus velutina)
- Red mulberry (Morus rubra)
- Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)
- American holly (Ilex opaca)
- American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
- Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)
- White ash (Fraxinus americana)
- Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis)
- Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
- River Birch (Betula nigra)
- Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana)
- Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)
- White oak (Quercus alba)
- Chestnut oak (Quercus prinus)
- Blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica)
- Red maple (Acer rubrum)
- Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
- Mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa)
- Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)
- Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
- Black cherry (Prunus serotina)
- Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
- Mimosa (Albizia julibrissin)
- Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata)
- Pignut hickory (Carya glabra)
- Smooth sumac (Rhus glabra)
- Royal paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa)
- Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana)
- Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)
- Alleghany chinkapin (Castanea pumila)
- American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
- Blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica)
- Common spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
- Black walnut (Juglans nigra)
- Shagback hickory (Carya ovata)
- Northern red oak (Quercus rubra)
Survey
by:
Data was collected by the students of Mr. Pete Senger, Buckingham High School
Page update: 10/4/05
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry