NOUN
- common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base; found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms
- smaller than and often included in the closely related Taxodium distichum
How To Use bald cypress In A Sentence
- WINDING ALONG HIGH ground where tall oaks, maples, and hickories crowded the sky, we descended to a swampy bottom filled with palmettos, water oaks, gums, and bald cypresses. Fire The Sky
- Available species include bald cypress, various dogwood, maple and oak varieties, arrowwood and nannyberry viburnum, black chokeberry, river birch, buttonbush, redbud, Norway spruce, eastern white pine and fragrant sumac. IndyStar.com Top Stories
- Swamp forests of bald cypress and tupelo grow in low-lying areas such as floodplains or abandoned river channels.
- This conifer, like the bald cypress and pond cypress of the southeastern United States, is deciduous, losing all of its short, soft needles in the autumn.
- There are several species available -- loblolly pine, arborvitae, lacebark elm, bald cypress, several kinds of oak, redbud and more. Local Headlines - NewsChannel 8
- Valley dominants are tupelo (Nyssa aquatica), oak (Quercus spp.), and bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
- As readers will discover, this rare plant species of federal concern grows in bald cypress-tupelo gum swamp forests in the coastal plain.
- River swamp forests of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) and oak-dominated bottomland hardwood forests provide important wildlife corridors and habitat. Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA)
- Bald cypress is exotic, and both woods are exceptionally decay resistant and are excellent building materials.
- Available species include bald cypress, various dogwood, maple and oak varieties, arrowwood and nannyberry viburnum, black chokeberry, river birch, buttonbush, redbud, Norway spruce, eastern white pine and fragrant sumac. IndyStar.com Top Stories