Twigs on the lower part of the shoot are deciduous and shed with the foliage. Leaves are pinnately compound, alternate, and linear with entire margins.
Flowers are monoecious.
Taxodium Species Leaves are soft, bright green above, and yellow or whitish-green below. Twigs near the ends of the shoots persist, while those on the lower part of the stem are deciduous and fall with the leaves. The habit of the tree is upright with spreading branches. It is large, often 100 feet in height, with a wide, buttressed, tapering trunk. It grows in wet soils, swamps, and overflow lands of the lower Ohio and Mississippi Valley regions and from Illinois southward.