Northern Bald Cypress

Taxodium distichum Origin: Missouri Improvement status: Wild Seeds per packet: ~70 BOTANICAL SAMPLE - NOT GERMINATION TESTED Life cycle: Perennial Bald cypresses are the most iconic trees of swampy bottomlands and winding rivers in the US southeast, with their long straight trunks, high branches, and knobby "knees" sticking straigh up out of the nearby ground or water (believed to help stabilize the tall trees). They're called "bald" because they're deciduous conifers (like the tamarack/larch and dawn redwood), dropping their needle-like leaves every fall. While they are native to the southeast, they can be grown much farther north — considered generally hardy to Zone 5 or even 4! Our seeds come to us from the good folks at Sheffield's Seeds in Locke, NY, and were grown in Missouri, in the most northern reaches of the trees natural range, so they should be well suited to growing in most of eastern North America (and possible western too). And while they can grow even in two-feet of st