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Cuyamaca Cypress

Hesperocyparis stephensonii

Cuyamaca Cypress
Photo: Joey Malone, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Cupressaceae (Cypress family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
SW. California (Cuyamaca Mts.)
Climate
subtropical

About

Hesperocyparis stephensonii, the Cuyamaca cypress, is a species of conifer in the cypress family, Cupressaceae, that is found only in one very small area in Southern California.

Where it grows

The Cuyamaca Cypress only verifiably exists in the headwaters area of King Creek in the Cuyamaca Mountains of the Peninsular Ranges system, south of Cuyamaca Peak within San Diego County in extreme Southern California.

Other Cupressus plants

Moroccan Cypress · South Tibetan Cypress · Hesperocyparis bakeri · Bhutan Cypress · Cheng Cypress · Yunnan Cypress · Saharan Cypress · Hesperocyparis forbesii · Chinese Weeping Cypress · Tsangpo cypress · Hesperocyparis glabra · Hesperocyparis goveniana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hesperocyparis stephensonii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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