Garden Explorer

Explore UBC Botanical Garden's Plant Collections!

The mission of UBC Botanical Garden (est. 1916) is to assemble, curate and maintain a documented collection of temperate plants for the purposes of research, conservation, education, community outreach and public display.

This site is intended to give information on the plants within the Garden's collections and grounds. For information on UBC Botanical Garden as a visitor destination, please visit UBC Botanical Garden's main web site.

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UBC Botanical Garden has significant wild-collected collections of:

Acer (maples) from Europe, Asia and North America
montane flora of the world
Clematis from Asia
climbing plants
Cornus (dogwoods) from Asia and North America
ferns & fern allies
Lardizabalaceae (zabala fruit family) from Asia
Magnolia from Asia and North America
Rhododendron from Europe, Asia and North America
Sorbus (mountain ash) from Asia and North America
Styracaceae (storax family) from Asia and eastern North America
vascular plants from rainforest, Garry oak and alpine ecosystems of British Columbia

In addition, the Garden has excellent collections of cultivated taxa of Magnolia, Rhododendron, alpine flora of the world, and bamboos.

Please note: to help researchers and students, this site includes some native on-site flora, weeds, and mosses in addition to the plants cultivated in the Garden. It does not include nursery plants. If you are looking for additional information, please contact garden.records@ubc.ca.

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