Swamp cypress explained

Swamp cypress is a common name for more than one species of plants in the family Cupressaceae (cypresses):

• Species of the genus Taxodium
  • Taxodium distichum, native to the Southeastern and Gulf Coastal Plains of the United States
• Glyptostrobus pensilis, native to subtropical southeastern China
• Actinostrobus pyramidalis, native to southwest Western Australia