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
Cicindela sylvatica Cicindela sylvatica Cicindela sylvatica is a tiger beetle, commonly known as the wood tiger beetle or heath tiger beetle. It is the largest of the British tiger beetles with a length of between . It is black in colour with a blue tinge, more pronounced on the underside, and sometimes appears with a bronze sheen. The beetle occurs throughout Europe with the exception of the Mediterranean and the extreme north. In the UK, it is found in England. The beetle has been given priority status under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP) and has been included in the English