| Description | Soapweed Yucca (Yucca glauca) has sharp pointed stiff leaves and produces a tall raceme of white flowers. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Broadleaf Evergreen |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average to dry |
| Soil & Site | average, dry-Mesic, dry |
| Flowers | 3 foot raceme, 10-15 florets per inflorescence, greenish-white, open at night and are pollinate by a small white moth, Yucca and this moth have co-evolved together |
| Fruit | seeds in a oblong-cylindrical capsules, black seed |
| Leaves | sharp pointed evergreen leaves, 2 feet long, contain a tough filament, an acaulescent plant (lacking a stem) |
| Dimensions | 2-3 feet wide |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Cultivar Origin | Discovered in 1811 by English naturalists Thomas Nuttall and John Bradbury. |
| Misc Facts | Yucca is a native Haitian name, glauca refers to the bluish-green Glaxo leaves. AKA: , Small Soapweed, Spanish bayonet, Beargrass, Narrowleaf Yucca, Plains Yucca, Beargrass, Great Plains Yucca |
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