Linnaeus Garden, Uppsala University
IPT GBIF Sweden
The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, Uppsala University
Dataset type
This dataset that contains primary occurrence data for species.
Description
The Linnaeus Garden is located at the site of the first botanical garden in Sweden founded in 1655 by Olof Rudbeck. It gained worldwide fame thanks to Carl Linnaeus who first, as a student, used his sexual system for plant classification in the garden before publishing it in 1735. Today's garden is a reconstruction of Linnaeus's baroque style garden. Only plants grown in the garden during Linnaeus's days are displayed.
Geographic Description
The collection is mainly represented by European taxa, but includes taxa from the Northern hemisphere as well as other taxa, mainly succulents, from the southern hemisphere.
Purpose
Research, horticulture, conservation, education.
Data quality
Curation
Methods
1. Not applicable
Type of content
Includes: Point occurrence data.Citation
Kårehed J (2026). Linnaeus Garden, Uppsala University. Version 1.0. The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, Uppsala University. Occurrence dataset. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=ups_linng&v=1.0
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
Digitised records
Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure. This resource was last checked for updated data on 20 Apr 2026. The most recent data was published on 14 Apr 2026.
Metadata last updated on 2026-04-20 09:06:48.0
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Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (International) 4.0
