School Trail
Red Maple
Black Oak
Dogwood
Eastern Redcedar
Finding Your Roots:
Learn the Native Trees of Virginia
From the parking lot, walk across the field on the Red Trail. As you enter the woods, the School Trail is on the right.
With five distinct geographic regions and a central location along the East Coast, it is not surprising that Virginia has the greatest variety of trees of any state in the Union. So you might think it is a daunting task to learn the native trees found in your area. Not so.
The best way to learn to identify your forest trees is to narrow down the possibilities. There are 60 different species of trees found at the Ivy Creek Natural Area but only about 20 of them are common. The School Trail has 32 native Virginia trees labeled along the trail. This will get you started.
Download a take-along guide to the trees of the School Trail (pdf)
Complete List of the Trees of the Ivy Creek Natural Area (pdf)