Yucca
filamentosa
Common Name:
Adam's Needle; Bear
Grass; Spanish Bayonet; Needle Palm
This
native evergreen looks a little like a small palm, but is actually more
closely related to the lilies. It is a short- to medium-sized
ornamental "shrub."
It grows in dry, sandy or rocky habitats and in fields, road shoulders and open woods. Tolerant of most soils except wet and is cold tolerant.
Plants stay small, growing no more than about 3-feet-tall. In summer a tall, showy flower spike emerges from the center of the plant and displays prominently for several weeks.
A bold evergreen focal point in the landscape, used at entranceways, borders, rock gardens, island beds, or in mass for accent.
Adam's Needle is deer and rabbit tolerant.
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Culture Plant spacing: 36 to 60 inches Performs best in full sun in moist, well-drained, deep soils, but it is extremely urban tolerant, including tolerance to poor soils, various soil pHs, soil compaction, heat, high light reflextion, extended drought, pollution, and Winter salt spray; however, it does not tolerate poor drainage or wet sites, and does not bloom in full shade.
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Use Adds architectural height. Adam's Needle is very drought tolerant and do well in outdoor container even without supplementary irrigation. Combine with agaves, grasses, cactus and palms to create low maintenance xeroscapes of interesting textures and forms.
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Flowers: creamy-white conical inflorescences range from 3' to 8' tall, blooming during July and August, and are quite showy when in flower. Individual flowers hang downwards, with petals that resemble huge teeth emerging from the corolla, and bloom from the bottom to the top of the semi-woody inflorescences. Fruit:
Capsules borne upright on the woody inflorescence, approximately
2 inches long, initially green and drying to brown. |
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Full Sun
Wet