Edith J. Carrier Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
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About the Edith J. Carrier Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
The Edith J. Carrier Arboretum it located at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U.S. Groundbreaking took place in April 1985 under direction of Dr. Norlyn Bodkin who is credited the first scientific botanical discovery along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States since the 1940s, Trillium: Shenandoah Wake Robin, presently found at the arboretum. The only arboretum and botanical gardens located on campus of a Virginia state university. Exhibits in 16 botanical gardens include an acidic sphagnum bog supporting northern species and insectivorous plants, a native azalea and rhododendron garden sponsored by the Mid Atlantic Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society displaying rare endangered large-flowered azaleas, the only shale barren with endemic species in an arboretum, a 3 mile trail system winding through 125 acres of mature Oak-Hickory Forrest including two identified century specimens and a species on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Threatened Species list found protected at the arboretum: Betula uber, Round-Leaf Birch.
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Edith J. Carrier Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
James Madison University
780 University Blvd, MSC 3705
Harrisonburg
Virginia 22807 United States of America
Telephone: (540) 568-3194
Fax: (540) 568-5115
URL: www.jmu.edu/arboretum
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