Missouri Botanical Garden
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Name (Latin)
Missouri Botanical Garden
Other forms of name
Henry Shaw Botanical Garden
Missouri. Botanical Garden
Saint Louis (Mo.). Missouri Botanical Garden
Shaw's Garden
Coordinates
-90.2589 -90.2589 38.6141 38.6141 (gooearth )
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Sources of Information
- Missouri Botanical Garden WWW site, May 12, 2015:our mission & history page (Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis was founded in 1859 by Henry Shaw)
- Shaw, H. Linnæus, Nuttall and Gray, 1883.
- Henry Shaw's will establishing the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1889:cover (admitted to probate at St. Louis, Missouri, September 2, 1889)
- Shaw's Garden Spring Sculpture Festival, 1972.
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Wikipedia description:
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 7.5 million specimens, is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden. Its Peter H. Raven Library contains 85% coverage of all literature ever published on systematic botany and plant taxonomy. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to the herbarium is MO and it is used when citing housed specimens.
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