Botanical Name: Yucca filamentosa
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Common Name: Adam's Needle  
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  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Broadleaf Evergreen, Shrub

 

Height Range

3-6'

 

Flower Color

White

 

Flower Season

Spring

 

Leaf Color

Green, Grey Green

 

Bark Color

n/a

 

Fruit Color

Red

 

Fruit Season

Summer

Information by: Stephanie Duer
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  • Description

  • Notes

Adam’s needle (also commonly called Spanish bayonet, yucca, and needle palm) is a virtually stemless broadleaf evergreen shrub (though it looks more like a perennial than a shrub). It features a basal rosette of rigid, sword-shaped, spine-tipped green leaves (to 30” long and to 4” wide) with long curly threads along the margins. Leaves form a clump to 2 to 3 feet tall. In late spring, a flowering stalk rises from the center of each rosette, typically to 5 to 8 feet tall, but infrequently to 12 feet, bearing fragrant, nodding, bell-shaped, creamy white flowers. Fruits are capsules and are edible. Use in rock gardens, as an architectural accent, in a meadow-type planting, or planted among a mass of ornamental grasses. Evergreen.