Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden | |
| Location | St. Louis, Missouri |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 38°36′45″N 90°15′35″W / 38.61250°N 90.25972°W |
| Built | 1859 |
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian |
| Website | www |
| NRHP reference No. | 71001065 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | November 19, 1971 |
| Designated NHLD | December 8, 1976 |
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, 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.