Common Names
Bald-cypress, southern-cypress (1).Taxonomic notes
Syn: Taxodium distichum var. nutans (Aiton) Sweet (1).Description
Trees to 50 m tall and 400 cm dbh. "Bark usually dark reddish brown to light brown with shallow furrows. Branchlets mostly with leaves in 2 ranks, pendent to horizontally spreading. Leaves mostly narrowly linear, ca. 5-17 mm, laterally divergent, free portion contracted and twisted basally. 2n= 22."This variety and var. mexicanum exhibit continuous morphologic integradation and are distinguished on the basis of phenology and distribution" (1).
Range
USA: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia at 0-500 m elevation in brownwater rivers, lake margins, and swamps, occasionally in slightly brackish water (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Watson, Frank D. at the Flora of North America web page.[Taxodium] [Cupressaceae] [home]
This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2285/cu/tax/distichum2.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 31-Dec-98