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It is a measure of the
value of plants to the well-being of the nation that the Founding Fathers
wanted to include a botanic garden in a prominent place in the new city. Today, the heart
of the United States Botanic Garden remains its plant collections,
which number more than 60,000 plants that are nurtured in USBG greenhouses
and displayed indoors in the Conservatory and outdoors in Bartholdi Park
and the National
Garden. Noteworthy
collections include economic plants, medicinal plants, orchids, carnivorous
plants, cacti and succulents, mid-Atlantic native plants, and ferns. Historic
specimens include several that date from the original 1842 founding collection.
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United States Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20001
Contact Us | 202-225-8333
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