Yuccas
Common Name	Latin Name	Type	H X W	Ornamental Value
Banana Yucca, Datil Yucca	Yucca baccata	YA	4 feet X 4 feet	Green leaves, white, greenish, or redish flowers
Beargrass	Nolina bigelovii	YA	4 feet X 3 feet	Long grass-like leaves, white flowers
Century Plant	Agave americana	YA	7 feet X 12 feet	Evergreen, yellow flower once at about 10 years or more (monocarpic), stalk 15 to 30 feet high
Desert Agave	Agave deserti	YA	3 feet X 3 feet	Yellow flowers on stem up to 15' in June, grey leaves (monocarpic)
Desert Spoon, Sotol, Desert Candle	Dasylirion wheeleri	YA	5 feet X 4 feet	Yellow flowers on 15 to 20 foot stalks, silver to green evergreen leaves
Joshua Tree	Yucca brevifolia	YA	15 feet X 8 feet	White to cream colored flowers
Mescal Ceniza	Agave colorata	YA	3 feet X 3 feet	Yellow flowers on stem, grey leaves (monocarpic)
Mescal Pelon	Agave pelona	YA	6 feet X 6 feet	White bloom on stem in early spring, light green leaves (monocarpic)
Mexican Grass Tree	Dasylirion longissimum	YA	6 feet X 6 feet	White flowers after red buds, stalk up to 15 feet tall in mid-summer, dioecious
Mojave Yucca	Yucca schidigera	YA	5 feet X 4 feet	Evergreen, white and purple flowers
New Mexico False Yucca	Hesperaloe funifera	YA	6 feet X 6 feet	White to yellow blooming stalk to 15 feet March through May
Our Lord's Candle Yucca, Foothill Yucca	Yucca whipplei	YA	3 feet X 4 feet	Evergreen, white and purple flowers
Parry's Beargrass	Nolina parryi	YA	3 feet X 3 feet	White flowers on very tall stalks in spring
Red Yucca	Nolina bigelovii	YA	3 feet X 3 feet	Evergreen, red flowers
Sacahuista	Nolina microcarpa	TA	6 feet X 8 feet	Greenish white flower cluster in spring, 6 foot leaves
Soaptree Yucca	Yucca elata	YA	6 feet X 4 feet	Green leaves, bell-shaped white flowers, limbs, dead leaves hang on limbs
Texas Beargrass, Texas Sacahuista	Nolina texana	YA	4 feet X 3 feet	Long grass-like leaves, white flowers
Texas Sotol	Dasylirion texanum	YA	3 feet X 5 feet	Creamy white flowers on 15 foot stalks spring and summer, light green evergreen leaves
Texas Tuberose	Agave maculose	YA	2 feet X 3 feet	Pale flowers on stem, spotted green leaves
Texas Yucca	Yucca rupicola	YA	2 feet X 2 feet	Evergreen, white flowers in late spring to mid-summer
Thompson Yucca	Yucca thompsoniana	YA	10 feet X 5 feet	Evergreen, white flowers in April to May
Weber's Century Plant	Agave weberi	YA	6 feet X 6 feet	Evergreen blue-green toothed leaves, yellow flowers on 15 foot stalk (monocarpic)

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