Trunk: To about 12 in, usually absent.
Leaves: Daggers to 20-in long with a sharp tip; pale-green to blue-green color, fibrous margins. Leaves widest at the middle and concave above.
Flowers: Blooms in the spring. Inflorescence is an erect raceme to 3-ft high. Flowers large, white with purple tinge; often begin down in the leaves and do not spread far from the stalk.
Fruit: woody capsule, cylindrical, constricted in the middle, splitting on the long axis into three parts.
Seeds:
Habitat: Sandy areas where the sand is derived from sandstone
Elevation: 4,000 to 8,200 ft.
Comments: This is our smallest species of Yucca. |