Beal Botanical Garden and Campus Arboretum

Founded in 1873, an outdoor botanical garden with over 2,000 species organized in economic, systematic, landscape and ecological groupings. Their plant collections include flowering plant families, economically important plants (fruits, vegetables, medicinal plants, fiber plants, dye plants, etc.) and rare and endangered plants of Michigan. Beal
Botanical Garden is the oldest continuously operated university botanical
garden in the United States.” This
living laboratory situated in the heart of MSU’s campus illuminates the
interconnectedness of people, plants, and place and encourages visitors to
explore the natural world.