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Agavaceae
Yucca

Yucca gloriosa Linnaeus. Common name: Mound-lily Yucca, Spanish Bayonet. Phenology: (Apr-) Oct; Nov-Dec. Habitat: Dunes, shell middens, also regularly cultivated and often persistent or weakly escaped around old homesites inland. Distribution: E. NC (Dare County) south to ne. FL and w. peninsular FL (Sorrie & LeBlond 2008). Populations in se. VA may be escapes from cultivation but occur in natural or semi-natural habitats similar to native occurrences in nearby ne. NC and may represent native occurrences (Virginia Botanical Associates 2019).

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Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: Trelease (1902) theorized that this species may be a stable hybrid of Yucca aloifolia and Y. filamentosa.

Synonymy ⓘ: = RAB, S, S13; = n/a — C, F; = Yucca gloriosa L. var. gloriosa — FNA26, NSProv, POWO; < Yucca gloriosa L. — K4, NS, WH3; Yucca gloriosa L. Basionym: Yucca gloriosa L. 1753

Links to other floras: = Yucca gloriosa var. gloriosa - FNA26

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily ⓘ: 8

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native range: southeastern United States



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