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.
Trees:
Saplings:
- Red maple (Acer rubrum)
- Serviceberry (Rosaceae Amelanchier alnifolia)
- Chinese holly (Ilex cornuta)
- Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
- White pine (Pinus strobus)
- Willow oak (Quercus phellos)
- Green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
- Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
Nature trail:
- Red maple (Acer rubrum)
- Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)
- Southern red oak (Quercus falcata)
- Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)
- Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
- Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana)
- White oak (Quercus alba)
- Sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
- Willow oak (Quercus phellos)
- Black oak (Quercus velutina)
- Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)
- Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
- Pignut hickory (Carya glabra)
- White ash (Fraxinus americana)
- Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
- Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea)
- Mockernut hickory (Carya alba (tomentosa))
- American holly (Ilex opaca)
- Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Wetlands:
- Loblolly (Pinus taeda)
- Black willow (Salix nigra)
- Sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
- Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)
- Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Wax myrtle (Morella (Myrica) cerifera)
- Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana)
Survey by:
Jeff
Kirwan, 5/7/04
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry
Page update: 8/10/04
Tracey S. Sherman
Virginia Tech Dept of Forestry