Makes dense screening and windbreak plant. Unusual and interesting tree often growing over 100 ft. in height. Broadtopped in the wild, but young and middle-aged trees are pyramidal. Twenty feet wide. Looks like an evergreen but is actually a deciduous tree and drops its leaves in the fall.
Foliage is lacey and yellow-green, turning golden brown and then red before falling.
Brown fibrous bark similar to that of cedars. Good shade in summer and allows full sunlight after leaf fall in winter. No flowers, insignificant fruit. The wood of the bald cypress is fairly durable and has many uses in outdoor construction. Resins obtained from the cones have been used as an analgesic in fold remedies for skin diseases.