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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution	Image
Agavaceae	Yucca aloifolia	Spanish Dagger	Dunes; also cultivated and persisting for decades at old homesteads, dump sites, and along railroads.	Se. VA south to s. FL and west to se. TX; Bahamas; also in s. Mexico (Villaseñor 2016).
Agavaceae	Yucca arkansana	Arkansas Yucca	Glades, exposed bluffs, dry woodlands, prairies, river scour, dry, open habitats.	S. MO and se. KS south through AR and OK to s. TX.
Agavaceae	Yucca carrii	Carr's Yucca	Coastal prairies, sometimes brackish, mima mound edges, chenier plain woodlands.	Coastal areas of se. TX (Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda counties).
Agavaceae	Yucca cernua	Weeping Yucca	Acidic clay soils, in prairie openings in and along margins of pine-hardwood forests, and adjacent rights-of-way primarily over Redco Soil Series	Endemic to e. TX (Hardin, Jasper, & Newton counties) and w. LA (Vernon Parish) (Singhurst et al. 2022).
Agavaceae	Yucca constricta	Buckley's Yucca	Limestone outcrops, granitic soils, openings in shrublands, and rocky prairies.	TX (and perhaps Mexico).
Agavaceae	Yucca filamentosa	Curlyleaf Yucca, Spoonleaf Yucca	Woodlands, forests, dunes, sandhills, roadsides, disturbed areas. Wooded margins of granite flatrocks and similar fire-shadow sites in sandhills. Also occasionally in coastal grasslands.	S. NJ south to GA, west to MS; escaped from cultivation over a broader area of e. United States.
Agavaceae	Yucca flaccida	Weakleaf Yucca	Thin soils around rock outcrops, woodlands, roadsides, disturbed areas.	Sw. VA, c. NC and TN south to s. FL and AL; cultivated and rarely escaping westward, especially as variegated forms.
Agavaceae	Yucca freemanii	Freeman's Yucca	Usually sandy soils in open pine and pine-hardwood forests with herbaceous understories.	Ne. TX, nw. LA, and se. AR.
Agavaceae	Yucca glauca	Soapweed Yucca	Calcareous shale barrens, loess hill prairies, other prairies.	ND, MT, and AB south to IA, se. MO, c. OK, nw. TX, and s. NM. Yucca glauca has the most extensive distribution of any North American Yucca. Records from east of c. OK are misidentification of Y. arkansana.
Agavaceae	Yucca gloriosa	Mound-lily Yucca, Spanish Bayonet	Dunes, shell middens, also regularly cultivated and often persistent or weakly escaped around old homesites inland.	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).
Agavaceae	Yucca louisianensis	Louisiana Yucca	Dry woodlands and barrens with sandy soil, such as longleaf pine and shortleaf pine woodlands, sandstone outcrops, post oak woodlands, sandy inclusions in prairies, and openings in shrublands (in s. TX).	S. AR and s. OK south to w. LA and e. TX; reported in e. LA and s. MS.
Agavaceae	Yucca necopina	Glen Rose Yucca, Brazos River Yucca	Sandy soils and occasionally limestone outcrops (Poole et al. 2007).	Endemic to nc. TX.
Agavaceae	Yucca pallida	Pale Yucca	Limestone outcrops, rocky prairies.	Endemic to c. and nc. TX.
Agavaceae	Yucca recurva	Curve-leaf Yucca	Dunes, dry sandy soils, flatwoods, upland forests, disturbed areas; widely cultivated.	GA (or NC and SC?) and Panhandle FL west to w. LA; cultivated and escaping in e. TX but possibly native to dune habitats along se. TX coast occupying habitats similar to its native range eastward.
Agavaceae	Yucca rupicola	Twist-leaf Yucca	Oak-juniper woodlands, grasslands, and outcrops on limestone soils.	Edwards Plateau, just extending into the Blackland Prairie region on limestone; also ne. Mexico.
Agavaceae	Yucca tenuistyla		Sandy coastal prairie, shrublands, and secondary dunes.	Endemic to se. TX in Austin, Brazoria, Galveston, and Waller Cos.
Agavaceae	Yucca torreyi	Torrey's Yucca		C. and se. TX and c. NM south to n. Mexico (CHH, COA, DGO, NLE, TAM).
Agavaceae	Yucca treculiana	Spanish-dagger, Trécul’s Yucca, Palma Pita	Brushland, grasslands, and scrub.	E. and c. TX, s. NM, and s. AZ south to AGS, CHH, COA, DGO, NLE, QRO, SLP, TAM, VER).