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Linnaean Garden

ArildV · CC BY-SA 4.0

24% trees around it and 2,240 species recorded.

49Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km24%
  • wild within 10 km60%
  • species recorded2,240

The forest around

24% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 20%Grassland 5%Water 0%Built-up 74%Trees 25%Grassland 19%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 9%Built-up 46%Trees 28%Grassland 22%Wetland 0%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 37%Built-up 12%Trees 49%Grassland 15%Wetland 0%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 31%Built-up 3%24%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km20%
  • 1–3 km25%
  • 3–6 km28%
  • 6–10 km49%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees25%
  • Grassland19%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland9%
  • Built-up46%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

2,240 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Norway maple
Norway mapleAcer platanoides289 recordsMartin Bobka (= Martin120 ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Wych Elm
Wych ElmUlmus glabra277 recordsMeneerke bloem · CC BY-SA 3.0
Goldilocks Buttercup
Goldilocks ButtercupRanunculus auricomus241 recordsStemonitis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Groundsel
GroundselSenecio vulgaris174 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vicia dumetorum
Vicia dumetorumVicia dumetorum138 recordsHectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow corydalis
Yellow corydalisPseudofumaria lutea133 recordsGhislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net · CC BY-SA 3.0
Euphorbia salicifolia
Euphorbia salicifoliaEuphorbia salicifolia132 recordsAthenchen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rampion Bellflower
Rampion BellflowerCampanula rapunculoides111 recordsD. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Grassland sedge
Grassland sedgeCarex divulsa100 recordsJan Kops · Public domain
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior100 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Chaerophyllum aureum
Chaerophyllum aureumChaerophyllum aureum100 recordsFornax · Public domain
Geranium nodosum
Geranium nodosumGeranium nodosum97 recordsHectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

49out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 24%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 60%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 2,240Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in June and from August to September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-2°-7°46 mm
  2. Feb-1°-6°40 mm
  3. Mar3°-4°40 mm
  4. Apr10°0°39 mm
  5. May15°6°60 mm
  6. Jun20°10°83 mm
  7. Jul23°14°81 mm
  8. Aug21°12°80 mm
  9. Sep16°8°53 mm
  10. Oct9°3°68 mm
  11. Nov3°0°61 mm
  12. Dec0°-4°54 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Linnaean Garden.

Botanical garden in Sweden

Linnaean Garden is an arboretum in Sweden.

Seen from space, 24% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 60% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

2,240 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 1,000 fungi, 224 birds and 16 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Norway maple, Wych Elm and Goldilocks Buttercup.

The best time to walk is in June and from August to September.

Linnéträdgården September 2024 01
ArildV · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Linnaean Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 19marked trails within 5 kmGula stigen, Danmarksvandringen, Ingegerdsleden Etapp 7: Alsike - Sunnersta - Uppsala and 16 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmStadsskogens högsta gran, Vasaparken 100 år
  • 375picnic sites within 4 kmGrillplats Ponden, Kåboängen and 373 more
  • 54shelters and huts within 6 kmHåga ängar and 53 more
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmHögbyhatt, Tunåsen and 4 more
  • 1,075car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmFyrishov Stugby & Camping
  • 30places to stay within 10 kmHotell Botanika, Hotel Uppsala, Scandic Uplandia and 27 more
  • 251restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Linnaean Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Funbosjön2.0 km² · 13 kmByrsjön1.3 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Uppsala Astronomical ObservatoryBortle 8 · 2.9 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Kvarnbofallet4.3 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

CarlvonLinne Garden
Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Linnemuseet 03
Bengt Oberger · CC BY-SA 4.0
Linnemuseet 04
Bengt Oberger · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Linnaean Garden

Sweden

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 2,240Species

Bergian botanic garden

Sweden · 59 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 1,858Species

See the guide

Haga park

Sweden · 60 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 44%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 2,327Species

See the guide

Bellevue park

Sweden · 61 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 36%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 2,326Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1515798) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species157,335 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesLakeyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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