Bald Cypress
(Taxodium distichum)
Native Range: The native range of Bald Cypress extends along the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain from southern Delaware to southern Florida and thence along the lower Gulf Coast Plain to southeastern Texas. Further south Bald Cypress a distinctive population of Bald Cypress ranges throughout most of Mexico. Inland, Bald Cypress grows along the many streams of the middle and upper coastal plains and northward through the Mississippi Valley to southeastern Oklahoma, southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwestern Indiana. (Silvics of North America. 1990. Agriculture Handbook 654.)
Note: The trees referred to in the posted article are NOT FOSSILIZED.