Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)Bald cypress, a long lived wetland monarch, is an incredibly important component of floodplains, sloughs, swamps, brakes, or anywhere else that remains too wet for most other trees. Wood from mature trees is highly valuable due to its ability to withstand the elements, and because of this has spurned an industry of recyclers who salvage lumber from old buildings or sinker logs from waterways to put it back to use. Baldcypress popularity as a landscape