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Bald Cypress
Taxodium distichum
Bald Cypress is a medium-growing flowering tree, hardy in USDA zones 4-9, that matures to about 8-20 ft × 5-8 ft. It does best in full sun with high water needs in well-drained, moist and occasionally-wet soil. Expect purple blooms in spring. It attracts small mammals and songbirds, stands up well to deer, erosion and fire.
- USDA zones
- 4-9
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- High
- Mature size
- 8-20 ft × 5-8 ft
- Spacing
- 24-60 feet
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- Well-drained, Moist, Occasionally-wet
- Foliage
- Yellow, Green
- Bloom color
- Purple
- Bloom season
- Spring
- Attracts
- Small mammals, Songbirds
- Tough against
- Deer, Erosion, Fire, Pollution, Salt, Wind, Wet soil
- Native to
- Eastern North America from DE to FL, west to Texas and Mexico
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