Bald Cypress is a long-lived native conifer tree with a pyramidal habit, a buttressed trunk, and root knees when grown in water. The light and soft feathery like needle foliage is yellow-green and turns an attractive cinnamon orange-brown in fall. Grows best in full sun and moist to wet acidic soil.
Type:
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Tree, Conifer
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Origins:
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Southeast N. America; GA Native
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Height:
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50' - 70'
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Spread:
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20’ - 45'
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Spacing:
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35'
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USDA Hardiness Zone:
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4 - 9
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Culture:
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Full Sun, Part Sun
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Bloom Color:
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N/A
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Season of Interest:
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Fall, Year-Round
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MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low Maintenance. Yellowing can be a problem in alkaline soils. Twig blight, bagworms, and mites are occasional problems.
LANDSCAPE USES: Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Shade Tree, Naturalized Areas, Woodland Garden, Pond and Streams, Water Garden, and Privacy Screen.
COMPANION PLANTS: Daylily, Wisteria, Cotoneaster
IMAGE: David Wright, Taxodium Distichum, St. Lawrence's Churchyard - geograph.org.uk - 587577, CC BY-SA 2.0
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.