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The specialty collections of the Chicago Botanic Garden span all types of landscape plants, including trees, shrubs and perennials, providing year-round interest and representing native and non-native species, plants for sun and shade, evergreen and deciduous forms, and plants for wet and dry conditions. All are found in a temperate climate and The Garden's staff has expertise in these collections, which include horticultural plants best suited to the Midwestern United States, plants indigenous to this region and plants that require additional research.

The Garden's nationally recognized specialty collections of selected genera represent great depth and breadth:
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Ginkgo
(ginkgo)
Quercus
(oak)
Spiraea
(spirea)
Aster
(aster)
Carex
(sedge)
Solidago
(goldenrod)
Narcissus
(daffodil)

The secondary collections exhibit significant depth in genera that are broadly adapted to Midwest conditions:
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Amelanchier (serviceberry)
Thuja
(arborvitae)
Cornus
(dogwood)
Rosa
(rose
)
Salix
(willow)
Geranium
(geranium)
Iris
(iris)
Allium
(ornamental onion)
Parthenocissus
(Boston ivy)
Miscanthus
(eulalia grass)
Scirpus
(rush)
Nelumbo
(lotus)

 

   
 

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Last revised on: Tuesday, June 4, 2002