| Scientific Name: | Taxodium distichum |
| Common Name: | bald cypress, pond cypress, swamp cypress |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer, Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 5 - 7m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Columnar, Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Shade tree, Specimen plant, Waterside planting, Wetland - bogs |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Bog, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Needle-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Brown, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Bark red-brown to grey, fibrous, exfoliating; roots poke out above water surface like knees; leaves 2-ranked, alternate sessile, pointed, needle-like, flat, linear, most 6-15mm long x 1-1.5mm wide (in pond cypress the leaves are tightly appressed to the branchlet and 3-10mm long); seed cones rounded, 1.5-3.5cm wide, at ends of previous year's twigs, each with 5-10 scales. Winter ID: buds rounded, 1-2mm wide, scale at each node 1-2mm long; fallen cones; root "knees" if planted next to pond. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/cu/Taxodium_distichum.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |