title: Buttonwood
text: # Buttonwood
  
  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
  
  * Conocarpus, a genus of flowering plants native to tropical regions of the world
  * Platanus, a genus of tree species native to the Northern Hemisphere
  * Glochidion, a genus of flowering plants distributed from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands
  
  ## 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
  