Plant: Falling Waters - Bald Cypress
Bald Cypress · Taxodium distichum 'Falling Waters'
-25%$180.00
Was $240.00
Size: 15 gal
Light
Full Sun
Bloom
Spring
Mature size
70 ft tall35 ft wide
More about this plant
A weeping form of the native bald cypress with soft, sage green needles that turn bronze brown in fall. It grows about 20 feet tall and wide in full sun to part shade and prefers moist, acidic soil, though it tolerates wet sites. Use it as a specimen, especially in the wetter parts of a landscape.
- 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 form of the native bald cypress with soft, sage green needles that turn bronze brown in fall. It grows about 20 feet tall and wide in full sun to part shade and prefers moist, acidic soil, though it tolerates wet sites. Use it as a specimen, especially in the wetter parts of a landscape.
- Flowers
- Inconspicuous. Male flowers hang in long drooping panicles and female flowers sit at the branch tips in March and April.
- Foliage
- Soft sage green needles about 0.3 to 0.75 inch long with a prominent midvein, turning bronze brown in fall.
- Fruit
- Round, wrinkled cones about 3/4 to 1 inch across, purplish green maturing to brown.
- Bark & stems
- Attractive peeling reddish bark.
- Native range
- Eastern North America, from Delaware to Florida, west to Texas and Mexico
