The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden, on UCLA's Westwood campus, maintains one of the most important living botanical collections in the United States, with plant specimens from all over the world. The garden is open daily.

For hours and directions please call 310 825-1260.

If you can't visit the garden in person, visit the garden's website.

Some additional links of interest:

• A biography of Mildred Mathias written by Prof. Arthur Gibson, Director of the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden.
• A number of specially prepared botany texts developed over the years by Prof. Gibson for his courses at UCLA:
  • General Botany
  • Lifeforms
  • World Vegetation
  • Economic Botany
• Information about the courses of study offered by the Life Sciences Division at UCLA.
• In Los Angeles, we are very fortunate to have several other world-class botanical gardens:
  • The Huntington Botanical Garden in San Marino.
  • The Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Administration operates four gardens: the South Coast Botanic Garden on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Virginia Robinson Gardens in Beverly Hills, Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge, and the Arboretum of Los Angeles in Arcadia.
• Some other key botanical gardens throughout the world:
  • The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University
  • The Missouri Botanical Gardens where Mildred Mathias got her start in her hometown of St. Louis.
  • The Morton Arboretum near Chicago maintains website containing much useful botanical information.
  • The University of Deleware Botanical Garden's website meticulously documents every species in the garden.
  • The Royal Botanical Garden at Kew dates from the middle of the 18th Century. Its website provides a virtual tour if you can't make it to England right now.

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