| Description | Yucca Color Guard (Yucca filamentosa) is a Yucca cultivar with yellow-striped leaves that hold up throughout the entire summer. |
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| Plant Type | Shrubs Broadleaf Evergreen, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-10 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average to dry |
| Soil & Site | average to well drained |
| Flowers | The flowers are paniculate inflorescences produced on a 5-foot scape; the florets are pendulous, bell-shaped, and white. |
| Fruit | The capsules will dry and split along the seems. Inside are numerous small, flat, black seeds. |
| Leaves | Stiff, upright, sword-like leaves with a yellow margin. They arise from the base of the plant, tipped with a sharp spine, and fiber threads will peel off the side of the leaf. The leaves are evergreen. |
| Stems | crown |
| Dimensions | The foliage reaches three by three feet, plus the 5-foot flower stalk |
| Maintenance | Each spring the dead leaves from the base of the plant will need to be removed. Heavy gloves and wear a long sleeve shirt to help eliminate cuts. They also seem to be great garbage collectors. Every fast food wrapper and soda can in the neighborhood ends up in my plants. |
| Propagation | division, can be grown from seeds but may not come true from seed |
| Cultivar Origin | Japan |
| Notes & Reference | #274-Site Authors' observations and growing experiences of many Yucca cultivars |
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