Key to Leaves of Virginia Trees

Campus Trees:

• Norway maple (Acer platanoides)
• Red maple (Acer rubrum)
• Sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
• Norway spruce (Picea Abies)
• Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana)

Saplings:

• Red maple (Acer rubrum)
• Silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
• Paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
• Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
• Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
• Crabapple (Malus spp.)
• Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus)
• Cherry (Prunus spp.)
• Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana)
• Pin oak (Quercus palustris)

Other Trees and Shrubs:

• Sugar maple ( Acer saccharum)
• Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
• Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)
• White ash (Fraxinus americana)
• Black walnut (Juglans nigra)
• Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)
• Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus)
• Bigtooth aspen (Populus grandidentata)
• Black cherry (Prunus serotina)
• Pin oak (Quercus palustris)
• Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
• Weeping willow (Salix babylonica)

Survey by:
Rodney Nice &
Neil Bridge ; 3/31/2001

Page update: 6/20/05
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry