Guided Tour: Medicinal Plants at the Arnold Arboretum

Date: 

Saturday, June 15, 2019, 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

The Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden contains a multitude of cultivated plants with culturally significant medicinal properties. However, on a casual stroll along Linden Path to the Leventritt, you will pass dozens of other plants that are often looked upon as simple weeds. Many of these plants have rich ethnobotanical histories of their own that tie us closer to our environment. Your guides will explain how these "weedy" plants came to colonize this area while touching on cultural contexts and botanical identification of these wild species—as well as the cultivated medicinal species in the Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden.

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