Yucca glauca - SOAPWEED YUCCA
Architectural, evergreen native perennial with very narrow gray-green sword-like leaves.
For hot and dry garden and well drained soils.
Long-lived plant with deep tap root reaching up to 20' in depth.
Roots were used for making soap. Native Americans used it for stomachache, on inflammations, to stop bleeding, in steam bath for sprains, for hair shampoo, against dandruff and minor skin irritation and poison ivy rash. Leaf juice as poison for arrows and in fishing.
Blooming Time: May-June, but it takes many years to flower
Size: leaves usually 2.5'-3' tall x 3' wide (up to 4' tall and wide), slower growing plant
USDA Zones: 3-9
Culture: full sun, half sun, drained and dry soil (gritty, rocky, sandy, infertile, average).
Moisture Needs: average (medium, on well drained soils), medium-dry to dry, very drought tolerant.
Origin: native to AR, CO, IA, KS, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX, WY, can be found in dry plains and sandhills
Black walnut tolerant: yes
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes - butterflies and yucca moth (uses plant as a host plant). Provides nesting place for native bees, small mammals, birds and reptiles.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 5" deep perennial pot
Plant combinations: Naturally looks very good with rocks, in dry rocky, sandy beds. Dry flower beds, hell stripes, xeriscape, rock gardens, dry slopes, sand gardens, deer resistant plantings.The best combinations are with smaller-leaved, smaller, groundcovering plants, succulents and fine-leaved grasses that support the unusual look. But also looks good with larger plants.
Good companions can be Artemisia, Agastache, Catanache caerulea, Eriogonum, Eryngium, Euphorbia, Gaillardia, Gypsohilla repens, Nepeta, Lavandula, Linum lewisii, Opuntia, Phlox subulata and other creeping phloxes, Scabiosa, various Salvia, Veronica. But can be combined with many plants on the average to drought tolerant scale like narrow-leaved Echinacea, smaller bearded Iris, Perovskia, Platycodon, Sedum and grasses (Bouteloua, Muhlenbergia, Sporobolus, Schizachyrium).
Pictures copyright: Matt Lavin, Commons Wikimedia
Yucca glauca - SOAPWEED YUCCA
Architectural, evergreen native perennial with very narrow gray-green sword-like leaves.
For hot and dry garden and well drained soils.
Long-lived plant with deep tap root reaching up to 20' in depth.
Roots were used for making soap. Native Americans used it for stomachache, on inflammations, to stop bleeding, in steam bath for sprains, for hair shampoo, against dandruff and minor skin irritation and poison ivy rash. Leaf juice as poison for arrows and in fishing.
Blooming Time: May-June, but it takes many years to flower
Size: leaves usually 2.5'-3' tall x 3' wide (up to 4' tall and wide), slower growing plant
USDA Zones: 3-9
Culture: full sun, half sun, drained and dry soil (gritty, rocky, sandy, infertile, average).
Moisture Needs: average (medium, on well drained soils), medium-dry to dry, very drought tolerant.
Origin: native to AR, CO, IA, KS, MO, MT, ND, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX, WY, can be found in dry plains and sandhills
Black walnut tolerant: yes
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes - butterflies and yucca moth (uses plant as a host plant). Provides nesting place for native bees, small mammals, birds and reptiles.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 5" deep perennial pot
Plant combinations: Naturally looks very good with rocks, in dry rocky, sandy beds. Dry flower beds, hell stripes, xeriscape, rock gardens, dry slopes, sand gardens, deer resistant plantings.The best combinations are with smaller-leaved, smaller, groundcovering plants, succulents and fine-leaved grasses that support the unusual look. But also looks good with larger plants.
Good companions can be Artemisia, Agastache, Catanache caerulea, Eriogonum, Eryngium, Euphorbia, Gaillardia, Gypsohilla repens, Nepeta, Lavandula, Linum lewisii, Opuntia, Phlox subulata and other creeping phloxes, Scabiosa, various Salvia, Veronica. But can be combined with many plants on the average to drought tolerant scale like narrow-leaved Echinacea, smaller bearded Iris, Perovskia, Platycodon, Sedum and grasses (Bouteloua, Muhlenbergia, Sporobolus, Schizachyrium).
Pictures copyright: Matt Lavin, Commons Wikimedia