Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
| elevation: | 480 feet |
| latitude: | N37 07.434' |
| longitude: | W78 03.969' |
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:
- Loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda )
- Red maple ( Acer rubrum )
- Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida )
- Norway maple ( Acer platanoides )
Natural area:
- Red maple ( Acer rubrum )
- Hornbeam ( Carpinus caroliniana )
- Pignut hickory ( Carya glabra )
- Mockernut hickory ( Carya tomentosa )
- American chestnut ( Castanea dentata )
- Redbud ( Cercis canadensis )
- Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida )
- Hazel ( Corylus spp. )
- Autumn-olive ( Elaeagnus umbellata )
- American beech ( Fagus grandifolia )
- Black walnut(Juglans nigra )
- Eastern redcedar ( Juniperus virginiana )
- Spicebush ( Lindera benzoin )
- Sweetgum ( Liquidambar styraciflua )
- Yellow poplar(Liriodendron tulipifera )
- Red mulberry ( Morus rubra )
- Black gum ( Nyssa sylvatica )
- Shortleaf pine ( Pinus echinata )
- Loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda )
- American sycamore ( Platanus occidentalis )
- Black cherry ( Prunus serotina )
- White oak ( Quercus alba )
- Scarlet oak ( Quercus coccinea )
- Southern red oak ( Quercus falcata )
- Red raspberry ( Rubus idaeus )
- Sassafras ( Sassafras albidum )
- Poison ivy ( Toxicodendron radicans )
- Winged elm ( Ulmus alata )
- Slippery elm ( Ulmus rubra )
- Grape ( Vitis spp. )
Survey
by:
Jeff Kirwan; 7/20/00
Page update: 1/27/06
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry