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§1 Plant
Taxodium ascendens Brongn.
vernacular pond cypress — species · Cupressaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Gymnosperm
- Family
- Cupressaceae Gray
- Genus
- Taxodium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 122 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 7 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 140 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–100 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.2–7.2
- Root depth
- 36 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 100 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 35 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Brown
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Winter
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 5,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 122 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gilchrist 12041
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Santa Rosa 12113
- St. Johns 12109
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Baker 13007
- Brooks 13027
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Coffee 13069
- Columbia 13073
- Crisp 13081
- Dodge 13091
- Dougherty 13095
- Early 13099
- Glynn 13127
- Houston 13153
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Jenkins 13165
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Madison 13195
- McIntosh 13191
- Mitchell 13205
- Pulaski 13235
- Sumter 13261
- Tattnall 13267
- Terrell 13273
- Tift 13277
- Turner 13287
- Ware 13299
- Washington 13303
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 13 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TAAS ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2684195 ↗Record version
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