Chicago Botanic Garden

PHOTO: identifying taxa signGeneral Info — vital statistics

Plants in the Collections

Number of plants in records: 2,459,224 (January 2011)

 

Total of active accessions (acquisition records): 19,795
Number of taxa in permanent collections: 9,084
Families represented: 229

Trees*
 13,613
Shrubs* 64,871
Bulbs
 908,276
Perennials* 1,270,530
Annuals** 867
Ground covers 164,256
Vines 11,696
Aquatics 24,251
Cyads
 29
Cacti
 482
Palms
 31
Mosses
 58
Epiphytes
 264


Statistics By Garden

Aquatic Garden
 403
Bulb Garden
 26,431
Circle Garden
 1,682
Dwarf Conifer Garden
 8,923
Enabling Garden
 375
English Walled Garden
 67,464
Esplanade
 72,484
Evening Island
 288,905
Fruit & Vegetable Garden
 29,368
The Greenhouses
 8,672
Heritage Garden
 16,917
Japanese Garden
 74,194
Lakeside Gardens
 123,493
Landscape Garden
 25,302
McDonald Woods
 14,319
Model Railroad
 3,819
Native Plant Garden
 9,494
Prairie & Marsh Island
 511,903
Rose Garden
 39,095
Sensory Garden
 72,825
Shade Plant Evaluation Garden
 6,798
Skokie River
 159,899
Spider Island
 32,548
Sun Plant Evaluation Garden
 4,120
Waterfall Garden
 14,441
WaterGardens/ Shorelines
 171,490
West Flower Walk
 25,737

 

* These categories include tropical varieties.

** "Annuals" includes mostly self-seeding native plants. It does not include annual plants in seasonal displays.