View from the daylily collection to a hillside of ripening wheat
Nestled among the wheat fields of the fertile Palouse hills, bordered on the north by a fine campus, and carved from land once vacated and degraded, the beautiful Arboretum at the University of Idaho is a living museum of trees within a landscaped setting of manicured gardens, ever-vital with continued introductions to the collection. It is an Arboretum that “holds its own” with the more well-known and is a treasure to a region that derives its bounty from the most recent of planet-wide geological events, the Pleistocene Ice Age.
The University of Idaho Arboretum
View of the Asian Collection
1200 West Palouse River Drive, Moscow, ID 83844
208-885-5978
www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/arboretum/index.html
Admission is free
Established 1933
63 acres. Almost 14,000 accessioned plants belonging to 2,400 taxa
Detailed inventory available online
USDA Zone 6B
Sunset Zone 2B