Texas yucca
Yucca rupicola Scheele
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 91 cm
Asparagaceae
Formerly Yucca lutescens, Yucca tortifolia, Yucca tortilis
When it flowers
JFMAMJJASOND
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SC. Texas (SE. Edwards Plateau) to NE. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Desert-Tropicals, one source
- Height
- 61 cmRead from Desert-Tropicals, one source
- Spread
- 91 cmRead from Desert-Tropicals, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Desert-Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Desert-Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Desert-Tropicals white; Wikipedia green, white
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from Desert-Tropicals, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (1)
- Chinese
- 变叶丝兰
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Desert-Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Yucca rupicola (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.