The New Canaan Nature Center (40 acres or 16 hectares) is a botanical garden, arboretum and nature preserve located at 144 Oenoke Ridge, Route 124, about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) north of the center of New Canaan, Connecticut.

About 90% of the plant specimens in the wildflower garden are native species, including bloodroot, columbine, mayapple, jack-in-the-pulpit, wild geranium, Solomon's plume, starflower, and trillium.

Shade-loving perennials include bleeding heart, crested iris, Jacob's ladder, hepatica, European ginger and Virginia bluebells.

The center also contains a small arboretum of Sciadopitys verticillata (Umbrella Pine), Chamaecyparis pisifera Squarrosa (Moss Sawara Cypress), Chamaecyparis pisifera Plumosa (Plume False Cyprus), Pinus densiflora 'Umbraculifera' (Japanese Umbrella Pine), Fagus sylvatica 'Atropunicea' (Purple Beech), Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula' (European Weeping Beech), Cercis canandensis (Eastern Redbud), Acer palmatum 'Dissectum-Pendula', Pinus cembra (Swiss Stone Pine) and Picea apies 'Repens' (Weeping Norway Spruce).

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