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Class

• Classwork has to come first. This site is an outgrowth of the Virginia Tech Dendrology (Tree ID) class.
• Syllabus
• Woody Plants in North America... it's more than just a textbook.
• Grades
• Weather

ID Help

• Students have been printing our fact sheet class notes for nearly 20 years. Photo rich and plainly written, they provide information on well over 1000 North American trees, shrubs and vines.
• The vTree app can tell you all the shrubs with white flowers where you are standing. Get it for Android or iPhone!
• ID Keys Use our dichotomous (traditional) leaf key or twig key, or just tell the database what you know with our interview key.
• Latin Meanings Knowing the meaning help with learning the words.
• Landowner Fact Sheets Learn more about common trees.
• Doctor Dendro will entertain your tree-related questions.

Trees

• Campus Trees Most Virginia Tech campus trees ID'd for you on a clickable map!
• Superlative Trees Compiled by the Native Tree Society, this database is our most reliable record of dimensional maximums.
• Old Trees Neil Pederson's Eastern Old List, our most reliable record of longevity maximums
• Remarkable Trees Big, old, or just plain cool.
• VA Big Trees Virginia's champion trees, by points.
• National Big Tree Register National champion trees, by points.

Other Tools

• Take a Quiz Think you know it all?
• What's Blooming in Montgomery County?
• Street Tree Selector Describe a site and get some possible planting solutions.
• Fall Color
• Wood Descriptions and images.
• Links