Greensboro Arboretum is an arboretum

Arboretum

An arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...

 located in Lindley Park at 401 Ashland Drive, Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. According to the 2010 U.S...

. It is open to the public daily without charge.

The arboretum features landscaped grounds with labeled plant collections, annual and perennial flowers, an arbor, gazebo and a lighted fountain, including the following displays and collections:

• Butterfly Garden
• Conifer Collection
• Dwarf Conifer Collection (more than 80 species of small conifers)
• Groundcover
  Groundcover
  Groundcover refers to any plant that grows over an area of ground, used to provide protection from erosion and drought, and to improve its aesthetic appearance .- Ecosystem :...
  
   Collection
• Holly
  Holly
  Ilex) is a genus of 400 to 600 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family. The species are evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, and climbers from tropics to temperate zones world wide....
  
   Garden
• Hosta
  Hosta
  Hosta is a genus of about 23–45 species of lily-like plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, native to northeast Asia. They have been placed in their own family, Hostaceae ; like many 'lilioid monocots', they were once classified in the Liliaceae...
  
   Collection (approximately 200 hostas)
• Hydrophytic Collection
• Rhododendron
  Rhododendron
  Rhododendron is a genus of over 1 000 species of woody plants in the heath family, most with showy flowers...
  
   Garden (over 70 varieties)
• Rose
  Rose
  A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows...
  
   Garden
• Shade Shrub Collection
• Small Tree Collection
• Sun Shrub Collection
• Vine
  Vine
  A vine in the narrowest sense is the grapevine , but more generally it can refer to any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent, that is to say climbing, stems or runners...
  
  Collection & Perennial Border
• Wildflower Trail
• Winter Garden Collection
• Woodland Trail

External links

• Greensboro Arboretum