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:
- Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana )
- Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana )
- Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora )
- White pine ( Pinus strobus )
- Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba )
- Norway spruce (Picea abies )
- Arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis )
- Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua )
- Red maple (Acer rubrum )
- Sawtooth oak ( Quercus acutissima )
- Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda )
- American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis )
- Crabapple (Malus fusca )
- Bradford pear ( Pyrus calleryana)
- Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos )
- Leyland cypress (x Cupressocyparis leylandii )
- Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida )
- Chinquapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii )
- Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum )
- Corkscrew willow (Salix matsudana )
Other trees:
- Post oak (Quercus stellata )
- White oak (Quercus alba )
- Pignut hickory (Carya glabra )
- Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea )
- Slippery elm (Ulmus rubra )
Survey
by:
Jeff Kirwan; 11/5/06
Page update: 6/28/07
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry