North Lawn (White House) requirement for public views of the White House. The Olmsted plan presented the landscape largely as seen today: retaining or planting large specimen trees and shrubs on the perimeter to create boundaries for visual privacy, but opened with generous sight lines of the house from north and south. The lawn is planted with a grass variety called tall fescue ("Festuca arundinacea)." Trees on the North lawn include fern-leaf beech ("Fagus sylvatica asplenifolia"), American elm ("Ulmus americana"), white oak ("Quercus alba"), white saucer magnolia ("Magnolia × soulangeana"), red maple ("Acer rubrum"), American Chestnut Tree ("Castanea dentata)" and American and English boxwood
Luzula sylvatica as a weed suppressant), hardiness, as well as the ability to grow in shade and damp soils being particular boons; "L. sylvatica" is commonly used for ground cover and/or as an ornamental grass. The cultivar ‘Marginata’ has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. Luzula sylvatica Luzula sylvatica, commonly known as greater wood-rush or great wood-rush, is a perennial flowering plant in the rush family Juncaceae. With regards to the etymology of the binomial, "Luzula" could come from the Italian "lucciola" ("to shine, sparkle") or the Latin "luzulae" or "luxulae", from "lux" ("light"), inspired by the way the