Chicago Botanic Garden

OUR GARDEN — PLANT COLLECTIONS

Specialized Collections

 

The specialized 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 nonnative 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 Specialized Collections of selected genera represent great depth and breadth:

PHOTO: ginkgo PHOTO: quercus_alba PHOTO: spirea PHOTO: aster
Ginkgo
(ginkgo)		 Quercus
(oak)		 Spiraea
(spirea)		 Aster
(aster)
PHOTO: scirpus PHOTO: amelanchier PHOTO: narcissus
Scirpus
(rush)		 Amelanchier (serviceberry) Narcissus
(daffodil)

 

The Secondary Collections exhibit significant depth in general that are broadly adapted to Midwest conditions:

PHOTO: actinidia PHOTO: arborvitae PHOTO: dogwood in flower PHOTO: rose
Actinidia
(hardy kiwi)		 Thuja
(arborvitae)		 Cornus
(dogwood)		 Rosa
(rose)
PHOTO: willow PHOTO: blue geranium PHOTO: iris PHOTO: allium
Salix
(willow)		 Geranium
(geranium)		 Iris
(iris)		 Allium
(ornamental onion)
PHOTO: goldenrod PHOTO: grass PHOTO: carex  
Solidago
(goldenrod)		 Miscanthus
(eulalia grass)

Under evaluation for invasiveness.		 Carex
(sedge)