OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 3 taxa in the family Taxodiaceae, Bald Cypress family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

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camera icon speaker icon 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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camera icon speaker icon 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

 


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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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