Yucca harrimaniae

Yucca harrimaniae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Agavoideae
Genus: Yucca
Species: Y. harrimaniae
Binomial name
Yucca harrimaniae
Trel.
Synonyms[1][2][3]
  • Yucca gilbertiana (Trel.) Rydb.
  • Yucca harrimaniae subsp. gilbertiana (Trel.) Hochstätter
  • Yucca harrimaniae var. gilbertiana Trel.
  • Yucca nana Hochstätter

Yucca harrimaniae Trel.,[4] the Spanish bayonet,[5] is a species in the family Asparagaceae, native to Utah, Nevada, Colorado, northeastern Arizona and northern New Mexico, at elevations from 1000 m to 2700 m.[6][1][7]

Yucca harrimaniae is a small, acaulescent (stemless) species forming clumps of rosettes. Flowers are nodding (hanging downward), partly greenish-white, partly purplish. [8] The species is closely related to Y. sterilis (Neese & S.L.Welsh) S.L.Welsh & L.C.Higgins..[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Flora of North America vol 26 page 436
  2. ↑ Tropicos Yucca harrimaniae
  3. ↑ The Plant List
  4. ↑ Trelease, Ann. Rept. Missouri Bot.Gard. 13:59. 1902.
  5. ↑ "Yucca harrimaniae". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Benny's Cactus
  7. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Species
  8. ↑ Plants for a Future, Yucca harrimaniae
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