The aquatic biome display imagines a Chesapeake Bay salt marsh with a great blue heron silhouetted against smooth cordgrass.
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW
Washington, DC
Visit deserts, rainforests, grasslands, wetlands, and tundra without leaving the National Mall. Smithsonian Garden's Biomes: Life in the Balance highlights these distinct ecological regions (known as biomes), the plants and animals that call them home, and the Smithsonian scientists who study and protect them.
