Bald Cypress thrives in the
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Bald Cypress
(Taxodium distichum) is among the most versatile of shade trees. Excellent pest and disease resistance and adaptability across a wide range of climates, soils and growing conditions are reasons it was voted the 2007 SMA Tree of the Year by the Society of Municipal Arborists. Native to wetlands of the Southeastern U.S., it has proven adaptable to compacted, low-oxygen urban soils as well as to dry planting sites. Its feathery, needle-like green leaves are deciduous, turning orange-tan before dropping in autumn to make way for sunlight during the winter months.

Bald Cypress has earned awards from coast to coast for its trouble-free performance. Named a “Great Plant for the Great Plains’ by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, and a “Great Plant Pick” for the Pacific Northwest, it has also garnered an “Oklahoma Proven®” award for its stellar performance in landscape settings such as the canal in Oklahoma City’s renovated Bricktown district.
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