| Scientific Name: | Yucca filamentosa (incl. hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | yucca, Adam's needle, palm lily |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Container planting, Group or mass planting, Rock garden, Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Leathery, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Panicle, White, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Evergreen, grass-like clumping habit; leaves thick, linear-lanceolate (sword-like), most 45-70cm long x 2.5-5cm wide, apex gradually tapering and spine pointed, marginal treads; panicle of large florets 5-7cm wide, each with 6 tepals, white to slightly yellowish. | |