Also called cypress, southern-cypress, ◼︎ white-cypress, ♒︎ ◼︎ tidewater red-cypress, Gulf-cypress and ♒︎ swamp cypress.
Part of
flood-tolerant cypress genus Taxodium
in
cypress / juniper / redwood family Cupressaceae
in
🌲︎ conifer order Pinales.
Native to the 🇺🇸 USA South.
🗺 Map (scroll down),
🗺 map (North America, Central America), 
🗺 today + with climate change (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).
In the temperate (poleward) part of its range, this tree is one of the few 🍃︎🌲︎ deciduous conifers,
joined only by:
•
larch genus Larix
and
•
dawn redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides.
Thus, this tree's common-name portion 🧑🦲"bald" probably comes from its appearance in the dormant season.
🏛🌲︎ State tree of Louisiana.
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)