Used for shoreline protection. A major saltmarsh plant. Useful for erosion control.

Wildflower garden or butterfly garden. A number of cultivars exist, but none are grown widely in Florida.

Younger specimens have a conical shape, but older trees tend to flatten out at the top. In some areas, the strangler fig (Ficus aurea)has strangled many mature bald cypress trees--The Corkscrew Swamp is an example of this. Can be used as a specimen tree, planted in floodplain areas, or planted in relatively moist uplands. Large rain gardens and bioswales. Tolerant of root disturbance, so a candidate for use as a street/parking lot tree.

Curiosity in wetland gardens.