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The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw . Its herbarium , with more than 6.6 million specimens, [ 3 ] is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden .
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Missouri is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Missouri [1] [2] [3] Name Image
Washington University in St. Louis. Doctoral students. Dennis E. Breedlove. Warren L. Wagner. Peter Hamilton Raven (born June 13, 1936) is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden. [1][2]
Climatron. The Climatron is a greenhouse enclosed in a geodesic dome that is part of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Initiated by then Garden director Frits W. Went, the dome is the world's first completely air-conditioned greenhouse and the first geodesic dome to be enclosed in rigid Plexiglass (Perspex) panels.
Henry Shaw (July 24, 1800, in Sheffield, England – August 25, 1889, in St. Louis, Missouri) was a businessman, amateur botanist, and slave owner [ 1 ] in St. Louis, Missouri when it was a gateway city to the West. His businesses supplied residents, pioneers and others. Having made his fortune, he was able to retire [ 2 ] at age 40, pursue his ...
Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Washington University in St. Louis. Author abbrev. (botany) P.S.Wyse Jacks. Peter Sherlock Wyse Jackson (born 7 June 1955) is an Irish botanist and environmentalist. He is president of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and holder of the George Engelmann chair in botany at Washington University in St. Louis.
Coordinates: 38°39′01″N 90°20′08″W. The Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District or ZMD is a cultural tax district in St. Louis City and St. Louis County, Missouri. The district has five subdistricts: the St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis Science Center, Missouri History Museum, and Missouri Botanical Garden.
Thomas Bernard Croat (born 23 May 1938 in St. Marys, Iowa) is an American botanist and plant collector, noteworthy as one of botanical history's "most prolific plant collectors". [1] He has collected and described numerous species of plants, particularly in the family Araceae, in his career at the Missouri Botanical Garden.