Yuccas        
Common Name Latin Name Type Usual Height X Width Ornamental Value
         
Banana Yucca, Datil Yucca Yucca baccata S 4 feet X 4 feet Green leaves, white, greenish, or redish flowers
Beargrass Nolina bigelovii S 4 feet X 3 feet Long grass-like leaves, white flowers
Desert Spoon, Sotol, Desert Candle Dasylirion wheeleri S 5 feet X 4 feet Yellow flowers on 15 to 20 foot stalks, silver to green evergreen leaves
Joshua Tree Yucca brevifolia T 15 feet X 8 feet White to cream colored flowers
Mojave Yucca Yucca schidigera S 5 feet X 4 feet Evergreen, white and purple flowers
Our Lord's Candle Yucca, Foothill Yucca Yucca whipplei S 3 feet X 4 feet Evergreen, white and purple flowers
Parry's Beargrass Nolina parryi Y 3 feet X 3 feet White flowers on very tall stalks in spring
Red Yucca Nolina bigelovii S 3 feet X 3 feet Evergreen, red flowers
Soaptree Yucca Yucca elata S, T 6 feet X 4 feet Green leaves, bell-shaped white flowers, limbs, dead leaves hang on limbs
Texas Beargrass, Texas Sacahuista Nolina texana S 4 feet X 3 feet Long grass-like leaves, white flowers