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.
Art Plotnik, in his Urban Tree Book, makes an interesting comment that "this ancient swamp tree thrives on dry land in urban areas...no longer does one have to paddle into the Okefenokee to find the species." Read more about: Baldcypress
