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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 southern 🇺🇸 USA. 🗺 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)
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🏠︎ 🌲︎ conifers with needles arranged singly 🍃︎ dormant 🌲︎ conifers (some order Pinales)
cypress / juniper / redwood family Cupressaceae larch genus Larix