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Alpine Botanical Garden of Campo Imperatore
The
Alpine
Botanical Garden
of
Campo Imperatore
is a
botanical garden
for
alpine plants
located at
Campo
Imperatore,
L'Aquila
,
Abruzzo
,
Italy
. It is
operated by
the
University of L'Aquila
.
The garden was
founded
in
1952
by botanist
Vincenzo
Rivera
. It collects
plants
local
to the
nearby
Gran Sasso
massif
of the
Apennine Mountains
, including hundreds of
grass
species
,
false
bilberry
,
greater
gentian
, and the Apennine
edelweiss
.