The Bald Cypress is a very attractive, soft-textured deciduous conifer with a pyramidal habit. A stately tree for the landscape and one of the most diversely adaptable. Bald cypress can be grown in a wide range of soils, wet or dry.

In dry soils the bald cypress will grow to about 30-40' in height and takes on an oval shape similar to that of the 'Bradford' pear. In wet soils, or standing water, it will grow 70-100' in height and form roots above the ground or water surface that are called "knees".

The needle like leaves are dark green in the spring and summer. In the fall, the Bald Cypress leaves may turn orange or coppery in color. The needles fall to form a pretty caroet under the tree.

If you've been to the Okefenokee Swamp, you've seen the bald cypress. A wonderful native tree that is much underused in southern landscapes.