Cupressaceae
Baldcypress
Taxodium distichum
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Genus
- Taxodium
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Common names
By language (45)
- Arabic
- طقسوديوم أصلع
- Armenian
- Տաքսոդիում սովորական
- arz
- تاكسوديم
- Asturian
- Ciprés de güeria
- Azerbaijani
- Adi bataqlıq sərvi, İkicərgə taksodium
- Basque
- Zingira-nekosta
- Belarusian
- Балотны кіпарыс звычайны
- Bulgarian
- Блатен кипарис
- Cantonese
- 落羽杉
- Catalan
- Xiprer dels pantans, Cyprès chauve, Xiprer calb
- Chinese
- 落羽杉, 落羽松, 培忠杉, 东方杉
- Croatian
- Močvarni taksodij
- Czech
- Tisovec dvouřadý, Cypřiš holý
- Danish
- Almindelig Sumpcypres, Sumpcypres
- dsb
- Wšedna bagnowa cypresa
- Dutch
- Moerascipres, Moerascypres
- English
- Baldcypress, Bald cypress, Gulf cypress, Red cypress, Southern cypress, Swamp cypress, Tidewater red cypress, White cypress
- Esperanto
- Marĉa taksodio
- Estonian
- Sooküpress, Harilik sooküpress
- Finnish
- Floridansuosypressi, Suosypressi
- French
- Cipre, Cyprès chauve, Cyprès chauve de Louisiane, Cyprès de Louisiane, Cyprès des marais
- Galician
- Alcipreste dos illós
- German
- Echte Sumpfzypresse, Cyprès chauve
- Greek
- Ταξόδιο το δίστιχο
- Hebrew
- טקסודיון דו-טורי
- hsb
- Wšědny ćisowc, Bahnowa cypresa
- Hungarian
- Amerikai mocsárciprus
- Icelandic
- Fenjasýprus
- Italian
- Cipresso di palude
- Japanese
- ラクウショウ, ヌマスギ, 落羽松
- Korean
- 낙우송
- Latvian
- Floridas purvciprese
- Lithuanian
- Dvieilis taksodis, Cyprès chauve
- Macedonian
- Мочуриштен чемпрес, Мочуришен чемпрес
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Sumpsypress
- Persian
- دارتالاب, دار تالاب, سرو تالاب, سرو مرداب, سرو مردابی
- Polish
- Cypryśnik błotny
- Romanian
- Chiparos de baltă
- Russian
- Таксодиум двурядный, Болотный кипарис
- Serbian
- Мочварни чемпрес
- Slovenian
- Dvoredna močvirska cipresa, Taksodija
- Spanish
- Cipres Calvo, Cipres de los pantanos, Ciprés calvo, Ciprés de los pantanos, Falso cipres calvo, Falso cipres de los pantanos, Falso ciprés calvo, Falso ciprés de los pantanos
- Swedish
- Sumpcypress, Cyprès chauve
- Tamil
- டாக்ஸோடியம், டாக்சோடியம்
- Ukrainian
- Болотяний кипарис дворядний, Таксодіум дворядний
Synonyms
- Cuprespinnata disticha (L.) J.Nelson
- Cupressus americana Catesby ex Endl.
- Cupressus disticha L.
- Cupressus disticha var. patens Aiton
- Cupressus laeta Salisb.
- Cupressus montezumae Parl.
- Schubertia disticha (L.) Mirb.
- Taxodiomeria peizhongii Z.J.Ye, J.J.Zhang & S.H.Pan
- Taxodium distichum var. typica A.Henry
- Taxodium pyramidatum Beissn.
- Taxodium sinense Nois. ex Gordon
Flowers
- Flower colour
- purple (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: William L. Farr, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: William L. Farr, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.