Downloadable Woodland Vintage Botanical Prints For Free

Free printable woodland botanical art with vintage charm. Features trees, leaves, cones, and acorns—perfect for botanical artists and forest-themed DIYs.

Updated July 25

If you love the quiet magic of the forest, the crunch of leaves underfoot, the smell of pine, and the charm of acorns and pine cones, this collection is for you! I’ve gathered some of the most stunning vintage woodland botanical prints, featuring everything from mighty oaks and twisty pines to delicate leaves and forest-floor finds. These prints are perfect for nature lovers, forest fantasy fans, home decorators, and crafters alike. They also make a fantastic reference for botanical artists looking to study the fine details of leaves, acorns and cones.

Free Woodland Vintage Botanical Prints For Fall

Just click on the highlighted title link to download the prints, and a higher resolution JPG of the botanical print will automatically open in a new tab on your device. You can then print or save that botanical image.

For illustrations of whole trees, check out the stunning tree posters of Larousse.

Meet the Trees of North America—Through a Botanist’s Eyes

Many of the beautiful woodland prints in this post come from Histoire des arbres forestiers de l’Amérique septentrionale by François André Michaux, a French botanist with a deep love for North American trees. First published in the early 1800s, the book isn’t just packed with gorgeous illustrations.

It’s also full of fascinating details about how each tree was used in everyday life, from building ships to making furniture. Michaux travelled extensively across the U.S. and Canada, documenting species like maple, oak, pine, and hickory with the eye of a scientist and the heart of an artist. If you’re a fan of vintage nature prints with a story behind them, this collection is a real gem.

Acorns and Oak Botanical Prints

Acorns are a great symbol of autumn and fall. It’s not just the squirrels that ate them in the past. They were an important food source for Native American Indians.

The acorn featured prominently in Roman architecture and continues to appear as a symbol in Scandinavian art. Artists and craftsmen use it to adorn furniture, jewellery, and cutlery, and you’ll even spot it topping church finials, most famously at Westminster Abbey.

Print 1: White Oak & Acorn 1

This white oak is from the book Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l’Amérique, published in 1812.

Print 2: Over Cup White Oak.

Print 3: Post Oak

The Post Oak grows slowly and ruggedly, flaunting thick, cross-shaped leaves and producing robust wood so durable that people often used it for fence posts, hence its practical name.

Print 4: Swamp White Oak

Print 5: Chestnut White Oak

People prize Chestnut White Oaks for their strong, durable wood and graceful, rounded leaves. Once a cornerstone of American forests, these oaks served as a go-to choice for building everything from barns to barrels.

Print 6: Rock Chestnut Oak

Print 7: Black Jack Oak

The Blackjack Oak may be small and scrappy compared to its towering cousins, but its tough wood and distinctive leathery leaves make it a hardy survivor in dry, sandy soils across the American South.

Print 8: Small Chestnut Oak

Print 9: Barrens Scrub Oak

The Barrens Scrub Oak is a tough, shrubby oak that thrives in poor, rocky soils—its small stature and twisted branches may not make it a showstopper, but it’s perfectly adapted to life on the fringes of dry, open woodlands.

Print 10: Black Oak

Print 11: Grey Oak

The Grey Oak, with its silvery bark and small, leathery leaves, is a modest but resilient tree found in rocky, dry terrains—often overlooked, it quietly plays an essential role in supporting wildlife and stabilising soil in harsh growing conditions.

French Forests in Full Bloom

The next few woodland prints in this roundup come from Traité des arbres forestiers by Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire—a beautifully illustrated 19th-century book all about the native and naturalised trees of France. Alongside the detailed botanical illustrations, the book includes fascinating descriptions of each tree’s characteristics and uses. It even opens with a section by renowned horticulturist André Thouin, offering practical tips on tree cultivation.

Print 12. Austrian Oak

Print 13: Sessile Oak

Pine, Fir, Conifer and Spruce Prints

There are lots of different types of conifer/pine trees. These pine cones are often collected and used for home decorations and wreaths. There are hundreds of arts and crafts on Pinterest using pine cones. They also make for great vintage botanical prints.

Print 14: Norwegian Spruce

This is probably one of the most common species to be used as Christmas trees.

Vintage Pines with a Botanical Twist

Some of the striking evergreen prints in this roundup come from A Description of the Genus Pinus by Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1824). A true conifer enthusiast of the early 1800s! This beautifully illustrated book dives deep into the world of pines and their cone-bearing cousins, with detailed descriptions, cultivation tips, and notes on how each species was used.

Print 15: Brazilian Pine

The cone of the Brazilian Pine is large and rounded, packed with edible seeds known as pinhões—a favourite seasonal treat in southern Brazil and a key feature that adds to the tree’s unique, almost prehistoric appearance.

Print 16: Larch

The Larch is a rare gem among conifers—unlike most evergreens, it sheds its soft, feathery needles in autumn, turning a brilliant golden yellow before carpeting the forest floor.

Print 17: Pinus Gerardina

Pinus gerardiana, commonly known as the Chilgoza Pine or Gerard’s Pine, is a hardy tree native to the western Himalayas, especially in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India. It’s best known for its long, slender cones that house the prized chilgoza nuts—delicious, edible pine seeds that are a traditional delicacy in the region. With its rugged beauty, silvery bark, and resilience in rocky mountain soils, this pine is both a botanical wonder and an essential local resource.

Plate 18: Indian Cedar

Print 19: Stone Pine

Print 20: Various Pine Cones

Woodland Botanical Gems from Sweden

Some of the more unusual prints in this roundup come from Acta Horti Bergiani, a journal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ garden at Bergielund. Filled with rare and exotic plant illustrations, it’s a treasure trove of vintage botanical discoveries with a distinctly Scandinavian charm.

Print 21: Norwegian Spruce

Print 22: More Norwegian Spruce

Plate 23: Even More Norwegian Spruce Cones

Print 24: Pine Cone Scales

Other Related Posts

There are some excellent woodland leaf prints here and autumn leaf charts here. You might also like this cute paper oak leaf fall craft. This Christmas Botanical print collection has a beautiful print of a Nordmann fir.

Ferns are often found in woodland areas, so you may also enjoy these vintage fern prints.

For more stylised vintage woodland art prints, check out those in “Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe “. Translates as The Plant in Arts and Craft 1886.

You might want to check out these beautiful free vintage flower pictures to download.

Check out this collection if you are looking for woodland creatures to complement these woodland botanicals.

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