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Nichols Arboretum, locally known as the Arb, is an arboretum on the campus of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.^[1]

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Acer cissifolium

Acer cissifolium (vine-leafed maple, vineleaf maple, and variations thereof; translit) is a maple native to Japan, from southern Hokkaidō south through Honshū and Shikoku to Kyūshū.

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Acer palmatum, commonly known as Japanese maple, palmate maple, or smooth Japanese maple (Korean: danpungnamu, 단풍나무, Japanese: irohamomiji,, or momiji, (栴), is a species of woody plant native to Korea, Japan, China, eastern Mongolia, and southeast Russia. Many different cultivars of this maple have been selected and they are grown worldwide for their large variety of attractive forms, leaf shapes, and spectacular colors.

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Acer pseudoplatanus

Acer pseudoplatanus, known as the sycamore in the British Isles and as the sycamore maple in the United States, is a species of maple native to Central Europe and Western Asia.

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Acer saccharinum

Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple, creek maple, silverleaf maple, soft maple, large maple, water maple, swamp maple, or white maple, is a species of maple native to the eastern and central United States and southeastern Canada.

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Aesculus

The genus Aesculus, with species called buckeye and horse chestnut, comprises 13–19 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae.

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Alexander Grant Ruthven

Alexander Grant Ruthven (April 1, 1882 – January 19, 1971) was a herpetologist, zoologist and the President of the University of Michigan from 1929 to 1951.

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Andropogon gerardi

Andropogon gerardi, commonly known as big bluestem, is a species of tall grass native to much of the Great Plains and grassland regions of central and eastern North America.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a college town and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States.

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Appalachia

Appalachia is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.

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Arboretum

An arboretum (arboreta) is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees and shrubs of a variety of species.

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Asclepias tuberosa

Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America.

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Azalea

Azaleas are flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron, particularly the former sections Tsutsusi (evergreen) and Pentanthera (deciduous).

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Botanical garden

A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.

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C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

C.S. Mott Children's Hospital is a pediatric acute care hospital located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Nichols Arboretum and C.S. Mott Children's Hospital are university of Michigan campus.

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Cannabaceae

Cannabaceae is a small family of flowering plants, known as the hemp family.

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Carex bicknellii

Carex bicknellii, known as Bicknell's sedge and copper-shouldered oval sedge, is a species of sedge native to North America.

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Carpinus caroliniana

Carpinus caroliniana, the American hornbeam, is a small hardwood understory tree in the genus Carpinus.

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Carya cordiformis

Carya cordiformis, the bitternut hickory, also called bitternut, yellowbud hickory, or swamp hickory, is a large pecan hickory with commercial stands located mostly north of the other pecan hickories.

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Carya glabra

Carya glabra, the pignut hickory, is a common, but not abundant species of hickory in the oak-hickory forest association in the Eastern United States and Canada.

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Carya ovata

Carya ovata, the shagbark hickory, is a common hickory in the Eastern United States and southeast Canada.

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Cedrus libani

Cedrus libani, the cedar of Lebanon or Lebanese cedar, is a species of tree in the genus Cedrus, a part of the pine family, native to the mountains of the Eastern Mediterranean basin.

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Celtis

Celtis is a genus of about 60–70 species of deciduous trees, commonly known as hackberries or nettle trees, in the hemp family Cannabaceae.

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Cercis canadensis

Cercis canadensis, the eastern redbud, is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, native to eastern North America from southern Michigan south to central Mexico, west to New Mexico.

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Chamaecyparis

Chamaecyparis, common names cypress or false cypress (to distinguish it from related cypresses), is a genus of conifers in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to eastern Asia (Japan and Taiwan) and to the western and eastern margins of the United States.

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Chicago Architecture Center

The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC), formerly the Chicago Architecture Foundation, is a nonprofit cultural organization based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, whose mission is to inspire people to discover why design matters.

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Chionanthus retusus

Chionanthus retusus, the Chinese fringetree, is a flowering plant in the family Oleaceae.

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Cladrastis kentukea

Cladrastis kentukea, the Kentucky yellowwood or American yellowwood (syn. C. lutea, C. tinctoria), is a species of Cladrastis native to the Southeastern United States, with a restricted range from western North Carolina west to eastern Oklahoma, and from southern Missouri and Indiana south to central Alabama.

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College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) is the liberal arts and sciences school of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Nichols Arboretum and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts are university of Michigan campus.

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Cornus

Cornus is a genus of about 30–60 species of woody plants in the family Cornaceae, commonly known as dogwoods or cornels, which can generally be distinguished by their blossoms, berries, and distinctive bark.

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Cornus alternifolia

Cornus alternifolia is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to southern Manitoba and Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and Mississippi.

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Cornus florida

Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood, is a species of flowering tree in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America and northern Mexico.

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Corylus americana

Corylus americana, the American hazelnut or American hazel, is a species of deciduous shrub in the genus Corylus, native to the eastern and central United States and extreme southern parts of eastern and central Canada.

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Corylus colurna

Corylus colurna, the Turkish hazel or Turkish filbert, is a deciduous tree native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia, from the Balkans through northern Turkey to northern Iran.

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Crataegus

Crataegus, commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple,Voss, E. G. 1985.

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Cultivar

A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated.

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Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...

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Fir

Firs are evergreen coniferous trees belonging to the genus Abies in the family Pinaceae.

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Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Forest Hill Cemetery is a cemetery at 415 Observatory Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Fraxinus americana

Fraxinus americana, the white ash or American ash, is a fast-growing species of ash tree native to eastern and central North America.

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Fraxinus nigra

Fraxinus nigra, the black ash, is a species of ash native to much of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, from western Newfoundland west to southeastern Manitoba, and south to Illinois and northern Virginia.

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Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Fraxinus pennsylvanica, the green ash or red ash, is a species of ash native to eastern and central North America, from Nova Scotia west to southeastern Alberta and eastern Colorado, south to northern Florida, and southwest to Oklahoma and eastern Texas.

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Ginkgo biloba

Ginkgo biloba, commonly known as ginkgo or gingko, also known as the maidenhair tree, is a species of gymnosperm tree native to East Asia.

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Graceland Cemetery

Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Greenhouse

A greenhouse is a special structure that is designed to regulate the temperature and humidity of the environment inside.

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Hamamelis virginiana

Hamamelis virginiana, known as witch-hazel, common witch-hazel, American witch-hazel and beadwood, is a species of flowering shrub native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota, and south to central Florida to eastern Texas.

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Hickory

Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus Carya, which includes around 18 species.

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Honey locust

The honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), also known as the thorny locust or thorny honeylocust, is a deciduous tree in the family Fabaceae, native to central North America where it is mostly found in the moist soil of river valleys. Honey locust trees are highly adaptable to different environments, and the species has been introduced worldwide.

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Huron River

The Huron River is a U.S. Geological Survey. Nichols Arboretum and Huron River are Huron River (Michigan).

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Impervious surface

Impervious surfaces are mainly artificial structures—such as pavements (roads, sidewalks, driveways and parking lots, as well as industrial areas such as airports, ports and logistics and distribution centres, all of which use considerable paved areas) that are covered by water-resistant materials such as asphalt, concrete, brick, stone—and rooftops.

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Juglans nigra

Juglans nigra, the eastern American black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to North America.

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Juniper

Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae.

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Kalmia latifolia

Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States.

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Kentucky coffeetree

The Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus), also known as American coffee berry, Kentucky mahogany, nicker tree, and stump tree, is a tree in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the legume family Fabaceae, native to the Midwest, Upper South, Appalachia, and small pockets of New York in the United States and Ontario in Canada.

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Landscape architect

A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.

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Larch

Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus Larix, of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae).

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Larix decidua

Larix decidua, the European larch, is a species of larch native to the mountains of central Europe, in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains as well as the Pyrenees, with disjunct lowland populations in northern Poland and southern Lithuania.

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Larix kaempferi

Larix kaempferi, the Japanese larch or karamatsu (唐松 or 落葉松) in Japanese, is a species of larch native to Japan, in the mountains of Chūbu and Kantō regions in central Honshū.

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Leucothoe fontanesiana

Leucothoe fontanesiana, also known as the highland doghobble, fetter-bush, mountain doghobble or switch ivy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to the southeastern United States.

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Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park is a park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Liriodendron tulipifera

Liriodendron tulipifera—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, lynn-tree, hickory-poplar, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron (the other member is Liriodendron chinense), and the tallest eastern hardwood.

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List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States

This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States.

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Magnolia fraseri

Magnolia fraseri, commonly known as Fraser magnolia, mountain magnolia, earleaf cucumbertree, or mountain-oread, is a species of magnolia native to the south-eastern United States in the southern Appalachian Mountains and adjacent Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain from West Virginia south to northern Florida and west to eastern Texas.

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Magnolia tripetala

Magnolia tripetala, commonly called umbrella magnolia or simply umbrella-tree, is a deciduous tree native to the eastern United States in the Appalachian Mountains, the Ozarks, and the Ouachita Mountains.

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Malus

Malus is a genus of about 32–57 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae, including the domesticated orchard apple, crab apples and wild apples.

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Mary Markley Hall

Mary Markley Hall (Markley) is a residence hall operated by the University of Michigan University Housing in Ann Arbor. Nichols Arboretum and Mary Markley Hall are university of Michigan campus.

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Matthaei Botanical Gardens

The University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens (300 acres, 121 hectares) includes botanical gardens, natural areas with trails, and several research-quality habitats and is part of the organization Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. Nichols Arboretum and Matthaei Botanical Gardens are arboreta in Michigan, botanical gardens in Michigan and university of Michigan campus.

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Meadow

A meadow is an open habitat or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants.

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Oak

An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.

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Oak savanna

An oak savanna is a type of savanna—or lightly forested grassland—where oaks (Quercus spp.) are the dominant trees.

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Ossian Cole Simonds

Ossian Cole Simonds (November 11, 1855 – November 20, 1931), often known as O. C. Simonds, was an American landscape designer.

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Ostrya virginiana

Ostrya virginiana, the American hophornbeam, is a species of Ostrya native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Manitoba and eastern Wyoming, southeast to northern Florida and southwest to eastern Texas.

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Peony

The peony or paeony is any flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae.

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Picea engelmannii

Picea engelmannii, with the common names Engelmann spruce, white spruce, mountain spruce, and silver spruce, is a species of spruce native to western North America.

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Picrasma quassioides

Picrasma quassioides (picrasma; Chinese: 苦樹 ku shu, Japanese: ニガキ nigaki "bitterwood"; also India quassia, quassia wood, shurni, quassia-wood, or quassiawood; syn. P. ailanthioides) is a species of Picrasma native to temperate regions of southern Asia, from the northeast of Pakistan east along the Himalaya and through East Asia from southern, central and eastern China to Taiwan, Japan and Korea.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Pinus ponderosa

Pinus ponderosa, commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine, is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America.

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Pinus rigida

Pinus rigida, the pitch pine, is a small-to-medium-sized pine.

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Pinus strobus

Pinus strobus, commonly called the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine is a large pine native to eastern North America.

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Platycladus

Platycladus is a monotypic genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing only one species, Platycladus orientalis, also known as Chinese thuja, Oriental arborvitae, Chinese arborvitae, biota or Oriental thuja.

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Quercus acutissima

Quercus acutissima, the sawtooth oak, is an Asian species of oak native to China, Tibet, Korea, Japan, Indochina (Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia) and the Himalayas (Nepal, Bhutan, northeastern India).

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Quercus alba

Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the preeminent hardwoods of eastern and central North America.

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Quercus bicolor

Quercus bicolor, the swamp white oak, is a North American species of medium-sized trees in the beech family.

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Quercus imbricaria

Quercus imbricaria, the shingle oak, is a deciduous tree in the red oak group of oaks.

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Quercus macrocarpa

Quercus macrocarpa, the bur oak or burr oak, is a species of oak tree native to eastern North America.

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Quercus rubra

Quercus rubra, the northern red oak, is an oak tree in the red oak group (Quercus section Lobatae).

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Quercus variabilis

Quercus variabilis, the Chinese cork oak, is a species of oak in the section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris'', native to a wide area of eastern Asia in southern, central, and eastern China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.

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Quercus velutina

Quercus velutina, the black oak, is a species of oak in the red oak group (Quercus sect. Lobatae), native and widespread in eastern and central North America.

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Ratibida pinnata

Ratibida pinnata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names pinnate prairie coneflower, gray-head coneflower, yellow coneflower, and prairie coneflower.

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Rhododendron

Rhododendron (rhododendra) is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae).

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Rhododendron catawbiense

Rhododendron catawbiense, with common names Catawba rosebay, Catawba rhododendron, mountain rosebay, purple ivy, purple laurel, purple rhododendron, red laurel, rosebay, rosebay laurel, is a species of Rhododendron native to the eastern United States, growing mainly in the southern Appalachian Mountains from West Virginia south to northern Alabama.

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Rhododendron maximum

Rhododendron maximum is a species of Rhododendron native to the Appalachians of eastern North America, from Alabama north to coastal Nova Scotia.

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Robinia pseudoacacia

Robinia pseudoacacia, commonly known in its native territory as black locust, is a medium-sized hardwood deciduous tree, belonging to the tribe Robinieae of the legume family Fabaceae.

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Rudbeckia hirta

Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed Susan, is a North American flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Eastern and Central North America and naturalized in the Western part of the continent as well as in China.

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Sassafras albidum

Sassafras albidum (sassafras, white sassafras, red sassafras, or silky sassafras) is a species of Sassafras native to eastern North America, from southern Maine and southern Ontario west to Iowa, and south to central Florida and eastern Texas.

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Schizachyrium scoparium

Schizachyrium scoparium, commonly known as little bluestem or beard grass, is a species of North American prairie grass native to most of the contiguous United States (except California, Nevada, and Oregon) as well as a small area north of the Canada–US border and northern Mexico.

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Shakespeare in the Arb

Shakespeare in the Arb is an annual event, presented in the open, in Nichols Arboretum.

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Shakespeare's plays

Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare.

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Silphium terebinthinaceum

Silphium terebinthinaceum is a member of the Asteraceae, a family that includes sunflowers, and is commonly referred to as prairie dock or prairie rosinweed.

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Solidago rigida

Solidago rigida, known by the common names stiff goldenrod and stiff-leaved goldenrod, is a North American plant species in the family Asteraceae.

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Solidago speciosa

Solidago speciosa, the showy goldenrod, is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

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Sorghastrum nutans

Sorghastrum nutans, commonly known as either Indiangrass, yellow Indiangrass, or golden feather grass, is a North American prairie grass found in the Central United States, the Eastern United States, and Canada, especially in the Great Plains and tallgrass prairies.

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Spiraea

Spiraea, sometimes spelled spirea in common names, and commonly known as meadowsweets or steeplebushes, is a genus of about 80 to 100 species Flora of China.

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Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.

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Stage lighting

Stage lighting is the craft of lighting as it applies to the production of theater, dance, opera, and other performance arts.

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Storm drain

A storm drain, storm sewer (United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada), surface water drain/sewer (United Kingdom), or stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand) is infrastructure designed to drain excess rain and ground water from impervious surfaces such as paved streets, car parks, parking lots, footpaths, sidewalks, and roofs.

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Styphnolobium japonicum

Styphnolobium japonicum, the Japanese pagoda tree (also known as the Chinese scholar tree and pagoda tree; syn. Sophora japonica) is a species of deciduous tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae.

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Symphyotrichum laeve

Symphyotrichum laeve (formerly Aster laevis) is a flowering plant native to Canada, the United States, and Coahuila (Mexico).

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Symphyotrichum oolentangiense

Symphyotrichum oolentangiense (formerly Aster oolentangiensis and Aster azureus), commonly known as skyblue aster and azure aster, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to eastern North America.

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Syringa

Syringa is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering woody plants in the olive family or Oleaceae called lilacs.

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Theatrical scenery

Theatrical scenery is that which is used as a setting for a theatrical production.

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Thuja

Thuja is a genus of coniferous tree or shrub in the Cupressaceae (cypress family).

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Tilia americana

Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichols_Arboretum

Also known as The Arb.

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Nichols Arboretum, the Glossary

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1907 establishments in Michigan

Arboreta in Michigan

Botanical gardens in Michigan

Huron River (Michigan)

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