Moundlily yucca
யூக்கா குளோரியோசா
Yucca gloriosa L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.4 m
- wide
- 2.1 m
Asparagaceae
Also called Spanish-dagger, Spanish dagger, Adam's needle, Glorious yucca, Lord's candlestick
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.8 m to 4.9 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 2.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, red, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Yucca superbe, Yucca fleuri, Yucca
- Spanish
- Yuca brillante, Daga española, Chamagra del Perú
- Chinese
- 大絲蘭 (鳳尾蘭), 美國波羅花, 刺葉王蘭
- Japanese
- アツバキミガヨラン, アメリカキミガヨラン
- Czech
- juka nádherná
- Russian
- Юкка славная
- German
- Kerzen-Palmlilie
- Chinese (China)
- 凤尾丝兰
- Catalan
- Iuca
- Swedish
- palmlilja
- Portuguese
- Círio-de-Nossa-Senhora
- Polish
- Jukka wspaniała
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Yucca gloriosa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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