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Exploring Virginia's Diverse Forests: A Guide to Identifying Common Trees

Discover the beauty and importance of Virginia's trees, from their environmental benefits to their role in providing clean water and wildlife habitats. Learn how to identify common trees through leaf types, bud characteristics, and more.

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Exploring Virginia's Diverse Forests: A Guide to Identifying Common Trees

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  1. Trees of Virginia

  2. Introduction • Trees are a renewable resource • Numerous environmental, economic, and cultural benefits • Improve our quality of life

  3. What trees do • Moderate our climate • Provide clean water • Provide fresh air • Homes for wildlife • Beauty • Recreation • Provide jobs, wood products • Quiet places to observe nature

  4. Forests constantly change • Swift change • Fire • Ice • Wind • Timber harvest

  5. Forests also change slowly • Succession • Climate change

  6. Virginia Forests • Hardwood forest covers over 20% of the total forest of VA • If left undisturbed, most if not all of VA would be forested • We have at least 3 tree harvests in most areas • Only a few remote areas still have virgin forest • Pines are mostly pioneer species

  7. Tree Identification 101 • Trees can be identified in a variety of ways • Parts, types and position of leaves • Shape of leaves • Types of buds • Types of leaf margins • Types of flowers • Types of fruits

  8. Conifers aka Gymnosperms • Have needles not leaves • Photosynthesize all year long • Are very flexible to withstand heavy snowfall

  9. Deciduous trees • Lose leaves in fall • Go dormant during the winter • Actively grow spring, summer, fall • Adaptations for life in the temperate zone

  10. Simple versus compound

  11. Pinnate versus palmate

  12. Opposite versus alternate

  13. Smooth versus toothed margins

  14. Identify common trees at BRHS • For each tree use the tree guides • Cut out the tree picture and paste it in your nature journal • Identify the tree by its common name • Identify the tree by its common name • Identify its habitat • Height at maturity • One interesting fact about the tree

  15. Green Ash

  16. Eastern red cedar

  17. Red bud

  18. Red mulberry

  19. Eastern white pine

  20. Black locust

  21. Sweet gum

  22. Red maple

  23. Sugar maple

  24. Pin oak

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