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.
A panoramic view of the trees of Mt. Pleasant Elementary School was created in 2002 by Guy Phillips, a student in the Virginia Tech Department of Forestry. A CD is available in the Mt. Pleasant School library.
School trees:
- Bradford Pear (Pyrus calleryana)
- Tree-of-Heaven ( Ailanthus altissima)
- Boxelder ( Acer negundo)
- European white poplar ( Populus alba)
- Eastern redcedar ( Juniperus virginiana)
- Loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda )
- Red maple ( Acer rubrum )
- Black oak ( Quercus velutina)
- Yellow buckeye ( Aesculus octandra)
- Virginia pine ( Pinus virginiana)
- Pignut hickory ( Carya glabra)
- Black locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia)
- Black willow ( Salix nigra )
- Sycamore ( Platanus occidentalis)
- American elm ( Ulmus americana)
- Slippery elm (Ulmus rubra)
- Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida)
- Hazel alder ( Alnus serrulata)
Other trees and shrubs:
- Multiflora rose ( Rosa multiflora )
- Vinca vine ( Vinca minor)
- Japanese honeysuckle ( Lonicera japonica)
Survey
by:
Guy Phillips; Spring 2002
Page update: 2/8/06
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry