Soapweed Yucca
Yucca glauca
The plains yucca, a low rosette of blue-green blades sending up a spike of greenish-white bells. Pollinated solely by the yucca moth and an icon of dry shortgrass country.
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–1 ft
- Spacing
- 2–3 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- June, July, August
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- butterflies, larval host
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing
- Native states
- CO, IA, KS, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX, WY
Related native plants
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- Twistleaf Yucca (Yucca rupicola)
- Torrey Yucca (Yucca torreyi)