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Gulf Coast Yucca
Yucca louisianensis
Yucca flaccida Haw., common names Adam's needle, weak-leaf yucca, or needle palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to south-central and southeastern North America from the lower Great Plains eastward to the Atlantic seaboard in Virginia, south through Florida and the Gulf states. Growing to 55 cm (22 in) tall by 150 cm (59 in) broad, it is a stemless evergreen shrub with a basal rosette of sharply pointed, swordlike leaves up to 55 cm (22 in)
From the article Yucca flaccida on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
It is a stemless evergreen shrub growing to 55 cm (22 in) tall by 150 cm (59 in) broad. It has a basal rosette of sharply pointed, swordlike leaves up to 55 cm (22 in) long. In summer, 150 cm (59 in) long panicles of bell-shaped creamy white flowers are held above the foliage. The Latin specific epithet flaccida means "weak", "feeble", referring to the leaves which often fold under their own weight (the inner leaves may remain erect as they are supported by the outer ones).
What it does
A number of yucca moths lay their eggs upon Y. flaccida as a host plant, an example being Tegeticula intermedia.
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
How it is grown
It is cultivated and valued as an architectural plant. Numerous cultivars are available, some with variegated leaves, of which 'Golden Sword' and 'Ivory' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Cultivation”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 170389.