MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
4344 SHAW BOULEVARD, ST LOUIS, MO 63110 missouribotanicalgarden.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: DISCOVER/SHARE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PLANTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT IN ORDER TO PRESERVE AND ENRICH LIFE.

HORTICULTURE: THE GARDENS HORTICULTURE PROGRAM DEVELOPS PLANT COLLECTIONS AND MAINTAINS LANDSCAPES FOR DISPLAY, HOME GARDENING DEMONSTRATIONS AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION, AND IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH AND EX-SITU CONSERVATION. THE EX SITU CONSERVATION EFFORTS WITH THE GARDENS LIVING COLLECTIONS INCLUDED 1,230 SPECIES OF CONSERVATION CONCERN AND THE GARDENS SEED BANK HELD 34% OF STATE OF MISSOURI'S NATIVE FLORA. OUR PLANT COLLECTIONS INCLUDED 17,200 TAXA AND 7,900 SPECIES. THE GARDEN'S 76 ACRES FEATURE INDOOR AND OUTDOOR PLANT DISPLAYS THAT ATTRACTED 1,037,216 VISITORS TO ALL SITES IN 2018. HOME GARDENERS AROUND THE WORLD REGULARLY UTILIZE THE GARDEN'S ON-SITE AND DIGITAL RESOURCES. THERE WERE MORE THAN 20,000,000 VISITS TO THE GARDENING WEB RESOURCES IN 2018.

SCIENCE: THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN IS A WORLD LEADER IN PANT DISCOVERY AND PLANT CONSERVATION AROUND THE WORLD. IN 2018, GARDEN SCIENTISTS DESCRIBED AROUND 200 NEW PLANT SPECIES, APPROXIMATELY 10 PERCENT OF THE GLOBAL TOTAL. THE GARDEN'S HERBARIUM CONTAINS APPROXIMATELY 7.5 MILLION SPECIMENS, MAKING IT ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE PLANT SPECIMEN LIBRARIES IN THE WORLD. THE HERBARIUM SERVES AS A GLOBAL DATABASE OF PLANTS AND IS USED TO MAKE EVALUATIONS ON CONSERVATION STATUS. BY KNOWING WHAT PLANTS ARE THREATENED, WE CAN IDENTIFY AREAS OF HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE WHERE PROTECTING LANDSCAPES MAY SAVE THREATENED SPECIES. THE GARDEN ALSO CONTINUES TO ADD TO ITS TROPICOS DATABASE, AS IT WORKS WITH PARTNERS AROUND THE GLOBE TO DIGITALLY DOCUMENT ALL KNOWN PLANT LIFE BY 2020.

EDUCATION: THE GARDEN TAKES SERIOUSLY ITS MISSION TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PLANTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT WITH PEOPLE OF ALL AGES. IN 2018, MORE THAN 330,000 PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES LED BY THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, FROM ON-SITE CLASSES AND EVENTS TO YEAR-LONG PROGRAMS AND COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS. OF THIS NUMBER, 58,000 WERE PREK-GRADE 12 STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WHO CONNECTED WITH THE GARDEN IN WAYS THAT DEEPENED THEIR UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION FOR PLANTS, NATURE, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVING SUSTAINABLY. IN THE COMMUNITY, THE GARDEN IS A LEADER IN EDUCATING AND ACTIVATING THE PUBLIC TO STEWARD LOCAL LANDS AND WATERS, FROM CREATING MORE BIODIVERSE HOME LANDSCAPES TO HELPING STEWARD LOCAL PARKS, TRAILS, CREEKS, STREAMS, AND OTHER GREEN SPACE IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY. IN 2018, OUR PROGRAMS ACTIVATED MORE THAN 1,000 CITIZEN SCIENTISTS TO DOCUMENT LOCAL BIODIVERSITY AND MORE THAN 800 CITIZEN STEWARDS TO REMOVE 300,000 INVASIVE PLANTS IN PRIORITY HABITATS.

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