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The willow oak is known for its dark bark with deep ridges and also its narrow leaves that undergo color shifts throughout the year – light green in the spring, dark green in the summer, and yellow bronze-orange, yellow-brown and russet-red in the fall. It provides needed shade in the hot summers of
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There is one original swamp chestnut oak tree still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. ( Photo coming soon. ) About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of
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There is one original bigleaf linden tree still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. ( Photo coming soon. ) About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the
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Endemic to the mid-western United States, the Kentucky coffeetree is now found throughout the North American content due in large part to its introduction by Native American communities that valued the tree for its medicinal properties. Early European settlers also used the seeds from the long bean
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There is one original Wych elm tree still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. ( Photo coming soon. ) About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the Capitol
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This unusual tree is rarely found in the wild, being limited mainly to a few rich wooded areas in river valleys and ravines in the southeastern United States. It is a pyramidal tree that develops a spreading rounded crown with age, typically growing 30-40' tall. Olmsted's love of the cucumber
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The slow growth of white oak makes them ideally structurally suited for placement near buildings and in landscapes. They also provide the highest ecosystem benefits of any species found in the eastern United States, including supporting hundreds of vertebrate and invertebrate animal species
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As a member of the horse chestnut family, the yellow buckeye is related to other horse chestnuts and buckeyes, including man-made hybrids between the species. A native of central Appalachia and surrounding areas, it is the tallest of the buckeyes. Yellow buckeye has opposite, palmately compound
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There are two original Dutch elm trees still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. ( Photos coming soon. ) About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the
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There are two original white ash trees still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. ( Photos coming soon. ) About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the
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There is one original green ash tree still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. ( Photo coming soon.) About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the Capitol
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Also called the Chinese scholar tree, the Japanese pagoda can be identified by its oval leaflets, gray-brown bark and shiny green twigs. The open-branching structure and feathery compound leaves of the pagoda tree provided fine texture that allowed for a play of light and shadow as Frederick Law
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With its gnarly, flaky light bark, thorny zig-zag branches and grapefruit-sized green pimply fruit, the Osage orange tree appears on the U.S. Capitol Grounds largely as a specimen tree with exotic interest. Native to the Plains region of the United States, Osage orange has a long history of use by
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Although no official records exist of the origination of the U.S. Capitol jujubes, it is believed that the current specimens originated from the founding U.S. Botanic Garden collection gathered during the Charles Wilkes expedition from 1838-1842. Olmsted used many exotic species in his designs
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Tulip trees were the second most frequently planted tree in the U.S. Capitol Grounds landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted, after London plane trees, with 78 individual trees. Most of these were used in his formal approach to the East Front of the U.S. Capitol. Their long straight trunks and fast
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There is one original northern red oak tree still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the Capitol Building
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The bur oak is a species in the white oak group, native to eastern and central North America typically growing in open sites in the open prairie. It is a long-lived tree growing slowly to 70' to 80' in height and spread at maturity with a large diameter trunk. Leaves are shaped like a fiddle
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There are three original American linden trees still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the Capitol Building
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There is one original smoothleaf elm tree still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the Capitol Building
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There are two original American elm trees still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the Capitol Building
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There are two original American beech trees still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the Capitol Building
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Known for its fan-shaped leaves that turn from bright green in the summer to bright yellow in the fall, the ginkgo's earliest leaf fossils date back 270 million years. The ginkgo drops its leaves at the same time creating a solid yellow carpet under the tree. There are six original ginkgo trees
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There is one original horse chestnuet tree still living on the U.S. Capitol campus today. About the Olmsted Originals Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 's 1874 General Plan for the U.S. Capitol Grounds sought to create a setting to accentuate the monumentality of the Capitol Building
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Text of the Plaque U.S. Capitol Grounds Commemorative Tree Acer saccharum 'Legacy' (Legacy Sugar Maple) Sponsored by: The Wisconsin Congressional Delegation To Honor The People of Wisconsin Dedicated on April 17, 2024
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In accordance with legislation enacted in 2000, "Any State may request the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress to approve the replacement of a statue the State has provided for display in Statuary Hall" under certain conditions.
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A list of some of the quotations and inscriptions found in the buildings on Capitol Hill.
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The regular practice of displaying a Christmas tree on the U.S. Capitol grounds is relatively recent. Records at the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) show correspondence from 1919 indicate that a Christmas tree was purchased that year. However, it was not until 1964 that a definite procedure was
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The map shows the states and territories stretching west from Texas to the Pacific Ocean and marks the Oregon, California, and Old Spanish Trails as well as the Pony Express route. Also shown are Sutter's Fort, where gold was discovered in California; the sites of Spanish missions and forts; and the
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The map shows the central section of the continent to illustrate the effect of the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the opening of the West. Ohio is shown with the seven ranges, the grid system that was started in eastern Ohio and was then used to map out many of the
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The map shows the states and territories between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River. Important cities (state capitals, trade centers, or otherwise influential in westward expansion) are indicated, and the names of Native American tribes appear to the north and west. About the Cox Corridors