NSIS: Florida Gardening with Native Plants


BALD CYPRESS FAMILY (TAXODIACEAE)
Bird food: Seed eaten by gadwalls, mallards, and sandhill cranes. Wildlife food: gray squirrels and Big Cypress fox squirrels Wildlife shelter: Big Cypress fox squirrels, hairy woodpeckers, kites, ospreys, prothonotary warblers, red-bellied woodpeckers

name	area	flower & fruit	season	other

Pond cypress Taxodium ascendens	NCS	catkins cones	Sp FW	t
Bald cypress Taxodium distichum	NCS	catkins cones	Sp FW	t

Codes:

N=north
C=central
S=south

Sp=spring
Su=summer
F=fall
W=winter

a=annual
b=biennial
p=perennial
s=shrub
t=tree
v=vine

i=invasive

ta=toxic to animals
th=toxic to humans