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common yucca
Yucca filamentosa
Yucca filamentosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae native to the southeastern United States from southeast Virginia south to Florida, and as far west as south and southeast Texas. They have become naturalized north along the eastern seaboard to southern Rhode Island and into parts of the lower Midwest. They are normally hardy in USDA hardiness zones of 5 to 9. Most commonly found in sandy soils, especially in beach scrub and...
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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Every page naming Yucca filamentosa in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 81605.
