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
Stillingia sylvatica fruiting from April to September. Stillingia sylvatica Stillingia sylvatica, known as queen's-delight or queen's delight, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It was described in 1767. It is endemic to the south-central and southeastern United States, growing in sandy areas such as sandhills and pine flatwoods. It is an herb or subshrub averaging in height. It has alternate, ovate leaves with short petioles, reaching in length and in width. The leaf margins are serrulate to crenulate with incurved teeth. Each crowded inflorescence has four to seven staminate flowers and three to four pistillate flowers. Queen's delight