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 trees:
Flowering dogwood (
Cornus florida )
Crab apple (
Malus spp. )
White pine (
Pinus strobus )
Eastern redcedar (
Juniperus virginiana)
White cedar ( Thuja occidentalis )
Cultivated holly (
Ilex spp )
Sugar maple (
Acer saccharum )
Mockernut hickory (
Carya tomentosa )
Pignut hickory ( Carya glabra )
Flowering cherry (
Prunus spp. )
Flowering pear ( Pyrus spp. )
Purple leaf plum (
Prunus cerasifera )
Eastern hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis )
Scarlet oak (
Quercus coccinea )
Virginia pine (
Pinus virginiana)
Pin oak (
Quercus palustris )
Paper birch (
Betula papyrifera )
White spruce (
Picea glauca )
Colorado blue spruce (
Picea pungens )
Other trees and shrubs:
Black locust (
Robinia pseudoacacia )
Red mulberry (
Morus rubra )
Tree-of-Heaven (
Ailanthus altissima )
Tulip tree ( Liriodendron tulipifera )
White oak (
Quercus alba )
Royal paulownia (
Paulownia tomentosa )
Black cherry (
Prunus serotina )
Northern red oak (
Quercus rubra )
Mimosa (
Albizia julibrissin )
Survey
by:
Jeff Kirwan
Page update: 1/31/06
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry