Pond Cypress
Taxodium ascendens
Pond cypress is the slender, upright cousin of bald cypress, with feathery ascending foliage and a love of acidic ponds and pocosins. Turns rusty bronze in fall before dropping its needles.
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 100–100 ft
- Spacing
- 15–20 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- January, December
- Bloom colors
- brown
- Wildlife value
- mammals, songbirds
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~16 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, VA