Krutch Garden Florilegium Exhibit

“florilegium” (flawr-uh-lee-jee-em): a collection of botanical illustrations depicting the plants of an area.

As part of the Campus Arboretum’s 20th Anniversary Celebrations, this exhibit aims to inspire visitors to pause, observe, consider, and study the plant kingdom they inhabit. In so doing, we aim to inspire further education and greater care for plants as they are essential to both our environmental and human health. 

The illustrations on display represent an historic and scientific record of the Sonoran native plants collected and planted in the historic Joseph Wood Krutch Garden campus on the University of Arizona mall. More illustrations will be added until all 65 plant species on record in the Krutch Garden are documented. The Krutch Garden Florilegium will be housed in the UArizona Library Special Collections and available for exhibit from there in perpetuity.

The exhibit will be on display August 9 through December 27, 2022.

For more information or to see the "Virtual Floriegium Gallery", visit https://arboretum.arizona.edu/research/joseph-wood-krutch-florilegium-project  

or E-mail:  infoarboretum@cals.arizona.edu