Baldcypress grows in a natural range, from New York City's Central Park to the water saturated swamps of Florida's Everglades and back up the Mississippi River Basin. The low elevation species follows much of the eastern United States system of rivers. Even though baldcypress is a conifer, the needles (actually the twiglets) shed annually after turning a beautiful coppery-bronze color in the fall.
1. The Silviculture of Baldcypress
The unusual and pleasing appearance of baldcypress is its "knees", buttressed base, massive bole, and irregular crown. Bald cypress is often draped with Spanish moss. These characteristics have led to its introduction as an ornamental in many parts of the world.
2. The Images of Baldcypress
Forestryimages.org provides several images of parts of baldcypress. The tree is a conifer and the lineal taxonomy is Pinopsida > Pinales > Taxodiaceae > Taxodium distichum (L.) L.C. Rich. Baldcypress is also commonly called cypress and swamp cypress.3. The Range of Baldcypress
USGS
The native range of baldcypress extends along the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain from southern Delaware to southern Florida and thence along the lower Gulf Coast Plain to southeastern Texas. Inland, baldcypress grows along the many streams of the middle and upper coastal plains and northward through the Mississippi Valley to southeastern Oklahoma, southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwestern Indiana.
