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Plant: Cascade Falls - Bald Cypress
Bald Cypress · Taxodium distichum 'Cascade Falls'
Size: 30 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
A weeping selection of the native bald cypress, grafted so the branches cascade toward the ground from the height it is trained to. Soft, feathery sage green needles turn bronze brown in fall before they drop. It grows in full sun to part shade, takes wet or ordinary soil, and makes a striking specimen near water or in a moist garden bed.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 70 ft tall and 35 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-10
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A weeping selection of the native bald cypress, grafted so the branches cascade toward the ground from the height it is trained to. Soft, feathery sage green needles turn bronze brown in fall before they drop. It grows in full sun to part shade, takes wet or ordinary soil, and makes a striking specimen near water or in a moist garden bed.
- Flowers
- Inconspicuous. Male flowers hang in long drooping panicles and female flowers sit at the branch tips in March and April.
- Foliage
- Flat, feathery needles about 1/4 to 3/4 inch long, held in two ranks on each branchlet, turning brown to copper in fall before the branchlets drop.
- Fruit
- Round, wrinkled cones about 3/4 to 1 inch across, purplish green maturing to brown.
- Bark & stems
- Fibrous bark that peels in thin vertical strips on younger trees.
- Native range
- Eastern North America, from Delaware to Florida, west to Texas and Mexico
