Greenhouse

Located on the 4th floor rooftop of the Mars Center for Science & Technology, the Wheaton College Greenhouse serves as a teaching collection featuring plants spanning a wide range of taxonomic diversity, ecological adaptations and economic importance. The greenhouse is also used as a research facility for student and faculty experiments and as a living collection for public outreach.

Search Current Plants in Greenhouse

In addition to four climate-controlled rooms, the greenhouse also contains four reach-in growth chambers.

Past student research in the greenhouses and growth chambers includes:

  • Plant response to fertilizers and light intensity
  • Genetic inheritance in consecutive generations
  • Dormant wetland seed germination
  • Cross pollination of Rapid-Cycling Brassica strains
  • Algae growth in different pH environments
  • Bean growth with Tobacco Mosaic Virus
  • Growth of albino corn for genetics studies
  • Seed bank studies

Alumni, students, staff, faculty and off-campus groups are welcome to tour the greenhouse.

Research Greenhouse
Rainforest Greenhouse
Desert Greenhouse
Student experiments
Student seed bank research
Student experiments in growth chamber
The Wheaton College Greenhouse has interesting and unique plants!

Ben Ainsworth
Greenhouse Caretaker
Mars Center for Science & Technology
508-286-3943
ainsworth_ben@wheatoncollege.edu