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§1 Plant
Yucca aloifolia L.
vernacular aloe yucca — species · Agavaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Agavaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Yucca
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 76 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- Low
- Hedging
- Low
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -1 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 276 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–75 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–8.5
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Colonizing
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 15 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 20 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Winter
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 15,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- Low
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 76 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Brevard 12009
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Hernando 12053
- Lee 12071
- Levy 12075
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Suwannee 12121
- Volusia 12127
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Franklin 22041
- Jefferson 22051
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- West Feliciana 22125
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/YUAL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2775744 ↗Record version
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