DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Taxodium distichum | Baldcypress 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Baldcypress grows along the Atlantic Coastal Plain from southern
Delaware to southern Florida, westward along the lower Gulf Coast Plain
to southeastern Texas almost to the Mexican border.  Inland, it grows
along streams of the Southeastern States and north in the Mississippi
Valley to southeastern Oklahoma, southeastern Missouri, southern
Illinois, and southwestern Indiana [11,18,36].  It is cultivated in
Hawaii [55].  Pondcypress is generally confined to areas from
southeastern Virginia to southern Florida and southeastern Louisiana
[11,18,36].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress


STATES : 
     AL  AR  DE  FL  GA  HI  IL  IN  KY  LA
     MD  MS  MO  NC  OK  SC  TN  TX  VA


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     BICY  BITH  CAHA  COLO  COSW  EVER
     FOCA  GWMP  GUIS  JELA  NATR  SHIL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
NO-ENTRY


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K089  Black Belt
   K090  Live oak- sea oats
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K105  Mangrove
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin
   K115  Sand pine scrub
   K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    74  Cabbage palmetto
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    84  Slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    97  Atlantic white cedar
    98  Pond pine
   100  Pondcypress
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
   106  Mangrove


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Baldcypress has been included as an indicator or dominant in the
following vegetation types:

The phytosociology of the Green Swamp, North Carolina [32]
Southern mixed hardwood forest of northcentral Florida [38]
Plant communities in the marshlands of southeastern Louisiana [41]
Plant communitiers of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina and their
   successional relations [52].

Related categories for Species: Taxodium distichum | Baldcypress