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Your search found 3 taxa in the family Taxodiaceae, Bald Cypress family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Bald Cypress
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Taxodium distichum FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Taxodium distichum FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Taxodium distichum 017-01-001 FAMILY: Taxodiaceae
Habitat: Brownwater and blackwater swamps, usually in riverine situations, depressions in bottomland forests, lake margins, river banks, rarely in wooded seeps
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pond Cypress
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Taxodium ascendens FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Taxodium ascendens FAMILY: Cupressaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Taxodium ascendens 017-01-002 FAMILY: Taxodiaceae
Habitat: Limesink ponds (dolines), clay-based Carolina bays, wet savannas, pocosins and other wet, peaty habitats, shores of natural blackwater lakes, swamps of blackwater streams, forming "domes" and "stringers" in Florida in very flat, fire landscapes, also as "hatrack" stands of widely spaced and stunted trees on oolite in south Florida
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: China-fir, Cunninghamia, Chinese Fir
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Cunninghamia lanceolata FAMILY: Cupressaceae
PLANTS National Database: Cunninghamia lanceolata FAMILY: Cupressaceae
Habitat: Suburban woodlands; commonly planted horticulturally, rarely naturalizing
Waif(s)
Non-native: China
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