Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees
| elevation: | 1310 feet |
| latitude: | N38 24.174' |
| longitude: | W78 54.268' |
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:
- Sweetgum ( Liquidambar styraciflua )
- Loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda )
- Willow oak ( Quercus phellos )
- Water oak ( Quercus nigra )
- Pin oak ( Quercus palustris)
- Black oak ( Quercus velutina )
- Red maple ( Acer rubrum )
- Sugar maple (Acer saccharum )
- Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida )
- Mockernut hickory ( Carya tomentosa )
- Black cherry ( Prunus serotina )
- White ash ( Fraxinus americana )
- Bradford pear ( Pyrus calleryana )
- Blue spruce (Picea pungens)
- Eastern white pine ( Pinus strobus )
- Austrian pine ( Pinus nigra )
- Leyland cypress ( x Cupressocyparis leylandii)
- Autumn-olive ( Elaeagnus umbellata )
- Higan cherry ( Prunus subhirtella )
Other trees and shrubs:
- Red mulberry ( Morus rubra )
- Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana )
Survey
by:
Jeff Kirwan; 7/14/00
Page update: 3/23/06
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry