California Botanic Garden
1500 North College Avenue
Website: www.calbg.org 

Program

Botany at CGU is located at California Botanic Garden and places primary emphasis on the diversity and evolution of higher plants. Subfields include the following:

• Biogeography
• Comparative Morphology and Anatomy
• Floristics
• Monographic and Revisionary Studies
• Phylogenetics (including Phylogenomics)
• Population and Conservation Genetics
• Reproductive Biology
• Systematics

Programs are research-intensive with a strong fieldwork component. Considerable interaction exists between students and faculty.

California Botanic Garden (formerly Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden) is within close proximity to the CGU campus. Among the physical facilities for advanced study and research are a botanical library, a comprehensive herbarium with approximately 1.2 million specimens, wood and pollen slide collections, well-equipped laboratories (morphology, anatomy, molecular, including a scanning electron microscope), growth chambers, greenhouses, long-term seed storage facilities, experimental plots, and extensive California native living plant collections. The City of Claremont is geographically situated with easy access to deserts, mountains, and the Pacific coast, and is thus conveniently located for diverse botanical field studies.