Landscape Uses:
	Accent or specimen tree in wet soils.
Availability:
	Widely cultivated.
Description:
	Small to large tree with an erect, straight trunk. Bark gray to brown, flaking in strips. Needles deciduous, thin, light green, almost always held flat against the twig.
Height:
	Typically 10-80 feet in height in South Florida; to 115 feet in Florida. Usually taller than broad.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Eastern and southeastern United States west to Texas and south to Miami-Dade County and the Monroe County mainland.
Habitats:
	Freshwater swamps and marl prairies.
Soils:
	Wet to moist, poorly-drained to moderately well-drained calcareous, sandy or organic soils, with or without humus.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate to high; grows best with some organic content and may languish in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance:
	Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Full sun.
Flower Color:
	Green turning brown.
Flower Characteristics:
	Cone.
Flowering Season:
	Spring.
Fruit:
	Cone.
Wildlife and Ecology:
	Provides some food and moderate amounts of cover for wildlife.
Comments:
	Depending on nutrients and water availability, this can be a small tree or tree-like shrub or it can be a large tree.