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Missouri Botanical Garden

Yinan Chen · Public Domain

18% trees around it and 1,215 species recorded.

41Forestyas Score

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  • trees within 3 km18%
  • wild within 10 km48%
  • species recorded1,215
  • Altitude163 m

The forest around

18% 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 32%Grassland 4%Bare ground 1%Built-up 63%Trees 16%Grassland 8%Bare ground 1%Built-up 74%Trees 25%Grassland 9%Water 4%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 61%Trees 36%Grassland 12%Water 5%Bare ground 2%Cropland 9%Built-up 36%18%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km32%
  • 1–3 km16%
  • 3–6 km25%
  • 6–10 km36%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees16%
  • Grassland8%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up74%

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

1,215 species recorded.

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

Black alder
Black alderIlex verticillata29 recordsUSCapitol · Public domain
Eastern purple coneflower
Eastern purple coneflowerEchinacea purpurea22 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Anthurium pentaphyllum
Anthurium pentaphyllumAnthurium pentaphyllum21 recordsWalter Hood Fitch · Public domain
Eastern persimmon
Eastern persimmonDiospyros virginiana21 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
Anthurium paraguayense
Anthurium paraguayenseAnthurium paraguayense16 recordsMuseu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) · CC BY 4.0
Mossy cup oak
Mossy cup oakQuercus macrocarpa16 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Red buckeye
Red buckeyeAesculus pavia16 recordsEric Hunt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Castor oil plant
Castor oil plantRicinus communis16 recordsNolege · CC BY-SA 3.0
Celandine poppy
Celandine poppyStylophorum diphyllum15 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Japanese netvein hollyfern
Japanese netvein hollyfernCyrtomium falcatum14 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Anthurium uleanum
Anthurium uleanumAnthurium uleanum14 recordsMuseu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) · CC BY 4.0
Sacred lotus
Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera14 recordsT.Voekler · 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.

41out of 100

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

  • 18%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 48%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,215Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 163 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan4°-6°63 mm
  2. Feb6°-5°64 mm
  3. Mar13°1°93 mm
  4. Apr20°7°121 mm
  5. May24°13°130 mm
  6. Jun29°18°107 mm
  7. Jul31°20°101 mm
  8. Aug31°19°93 mm
  9. Sep27°15°80 mm
  10. Oct20°8°94 mm
  11. Nov13°1°86 mm
  12. Dec6°-3°74 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Missouri Botanical Garden.

Non-profit organization in the USA

Missouri Botanical Garden is an arboretum in United States.

Seen from space, 18% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 48% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,215 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 9 fungi, 202 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Black alder, Eastern purple coneflower and Anthurium pentaphyllum.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

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Yinan Chen · Public Domain

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • DraftKings at Casino Queen RV Parkcampsite · 8.1 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Union Station Marriottplace to stay · 4.8 km · 83 within 10 km
  • Richmond Heightsnearest town · 5.5 km in a straight line
  • St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 km in a straight lineCar hire at STL airport (St Louis)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at STL airport (St Louis)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Missouri Botanical 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmADT - Missouri - L - Seg 1, Zigzag Bridge
  • 12named and notable trees within 6 kmTree in a Tree, Ginkgo, Hackberry and 9 more
  • 163picnic sites within 4 kmPicnic Ground 3 and 162 more
  • 245shelters and huts within 6 kmDuck Shelter, Bowl Lake Pavilion, Central Fields Pavilion and 242 more
  • 7viewpoints within 5 km
  • 8visitor centres within 6 kmJack C. Taylor Visitor Center, Guest Relations, Welcome Desk and 5 more
  • 870car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmDraftKings at Casino Queen RV Park, Eagle Point
  • 83places to stay within 10 kmUnion Station Marriott, Tru, Home2 Suites and 80 more
  • 222restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Missouri Botanical 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.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Big Mound7.1 kmOklahoma Hill14 kmClarks Mound17 kmRattlesnake Mound17 kmFox Hill24 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.

Eight Bridges Missouri Botanical Gardens
Jouaienttoi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Children's area, Missouri Botanical Garden
Paulmcdonald · CC BY-SA 4.0
Children's water play area, Missouri Botanical Garden
Paulmcdonald · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Missouri Botanical Garden

United States

  • 41Forestyas Score
  • 18%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 1,215Species

Mark Twain National Forest

United States · 131 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 110Species

See the guide

Shawnee National Forest

United States · 186 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 230Species

See the guide

Hoosier National Forest

United States · 325 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 175Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1852803) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species232,756 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 atlasesPeakyas

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

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