Bald Cypress - Water Tupelo Brownwater Swamp – CEGL007431

Second-growth stand of water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) in a flooded backswamp of the Meherrin River, southeast of Emporia in Southampton County.  Pure stands of water tupelo, or mixtures of water tupelo and bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), are characteristic of deep silty sloughs and backswamps along brownwater rivers that originate in the Piedmont, or along smaller streams that deposit alluvium from non-sandy (clay, silt) areas of the Coastal Plain.