Missouri Botanical Garden

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The Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the oldest and most renowned botanical institutions in the United States, featuring extensive plant collections, research facilities, and historic landscapes.

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William T. Kemper Center for Home Gardening 1

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instanceOf botanical garden
research institution
tourist attraction
affiliation Center for Plant Conservation
alsoKnownAs Shaw’s Garden
architecturalStyle Victorian (Tower Grove House)
area approximately 79 acres
category Botanical gardens in Missouri
Protected areas of St. Louis, Missouri
Research institutes in Missouri
coordinateLocation 38.612°N 90.259°W
country United States of America
surface form: United States
foundedBy Henry Shaw
foundedInPeriod 19th century
founder Henry Shaw
hasCollection aquatic plants
herbarium specimens
historic plant varieties
living plant collections
native Missouri flora
orchids
succulents
temperate plants
tropical plants
woody plants
hasHerbariumCode Missouri
surface form: MO
hasMission botanical research
horticultural display
plant conservation
public education
hasOnlineResource Tropicos botanical database
hasPart Butterfly House
Children’s Garden
Chinese Garden
Climatron
English Woodland Garden
Herbarium
Japanese Garden
Lehmann Building
Library
Linnaean House
Ottoman Garden
Research Center
Ridgway Visitor Center
Seiwa-en Japanese Garden
Temperate House
surface form: Shoenberg Temperate House

Temperate House
Tower Grove House
Victorian District
Missouri Botanical Garden self-linksurface differs
surface form: William T. Kemper Center for Home Gardening
hasResearchField biodiversity informatics
botany
conservation biology
ecology
ethnobotany
horticulture
plant systematics
taxonomy
heritageDesignation National Historic Landmark
National Register of Historic Places
surface form: National Register of Historic Places listing
heritageDesignationAppliesTo Tower Grove House
inception 1859
languageOfWorkOrName English
locatedIn Midwestern United States
Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
surface form: St. Louis, Missouri
locatedInTimeZone Central Time Zone
memberOf American Public Gardens Association
namedAfter Missouri
offers educational programs
exhibitions
guided tours
horticultural classes
operates Shaw Nature Reserve
Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House
operator Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees
publishes Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden
significantBuilding Climatron geodesic dome greenhouse
significantEvent designation as a National Historic Landmark
visitorCountClass hundreds of thousands of visitors per year
website https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/

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St. Louis, Missouri, United States hasLandmark Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden hasPart Missouri Botanical Garden self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: William T. Kemper Center for Home Gardening
St. Louis metropolitan area majorAttraction Missouri Botanical Garden