Soapweed Yucca

Soapweed Yucca

Yucca glauca

Agavaceae (Agave Family)

Yucca glauca: Soapweed Yucca

Location near campus: in Xeriscape Garden at corner of Linwood and National.

medium to gray-green, very stiff narrow leaves, 12-30" long with string-like fibers along leaf margins
only Yucca native to Missouri, found on glades; common to prairies west of Missouri
has a 2-6’ tall raceme or slender panicle of large, bell-like, creamy-white flowers in late spring to early summer
prefers full sun, dry soils
non-trunk-forming (occasionally short trunk); develops offsets with age, but fewer offsets than with Y. filamentosa or Y. flaccida
one of two most cold-hardy yuccas (other is Yucca flaccida)