U.S. Botanic Garden - Washington DC

At the U.S. Botanic Garden, the plants are labeled with a combination of plant genus, family, common name, cultivar and native country. If you are visiting the garden to get ideas for home gardens, use the labeled information to look up culture needs.

When visiting the garden, you will notice that some plants have metal stake labels from the World Conservation Union Red List. This labeling identifies the plants survival status in the world. The U.S. Botanic Garden also cooperates with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora as a rescue center for plants that are shipped illegally and confiscated. If rescued plants are unable to return to the original country, surviving plants are kept and protected.