Buttonwood Explained

Buttonwood or Buttonwoods may refer to:

• "Buttonwood", a finance column in The Economist
• Buttonwood Agreement, 1792 effort to organize securities trading that created the predecessor of the New York Stock Exchange

Plants

Buttonwood or button wood might refer to:

• Conocarpus, a genus of flowering plants native to tropical regions of the world, particularly:
  • Conocarpus erectus, native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world
• Platanus, a genus of tree species native to the Northern Hemisphere, particularly:
  • Platanus occidentalis, native to North America
• Glochidion, a genus of flowering plants distributed from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands, particularly:
  • Glochidion ferdinandi, native to eastern Australia

Places

• Buttonwood, Pennsylvania, a village along Pennsylvania Route 284
• Buttonwood Corners, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
• Buttonwood Covered Bridge, a covered bridge in the US state of Pennsylvania

Institutions

• Buttonwood Park Historic District, a historic district in New Bedford, Massachusetts
• Buttonwood Park Zoo, a zoo in New Bedford, Massachusetts
• Buttonwoods Beach Historic District, a historic district in Warwick, Rhode Island
• Buttonwoods Museum, a museum in Haverhill, Massachusetts

See also

• Buttonbush, plants