Adam's Needle

Yucca filamentosa Asparagaceae

Other names

Spoonleaf Yucca, Needle Palm

Growth habit

Shrub

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

E. North America

Location

Conifer Slope

Source of plant

Seneca Hill Perennials

Description

Shrub, almost stemless, stoloniferous, forming clumps. Leaves to 75x10cm, erect to spreading, stiff, tapering, margins inrolled at apex, elsewhere filiferous. Inflorescence to 4.5m; flowers pendant, to 5cm, white tinged yellow; tepals abruptly mucronate; style oblong, white.

USDA Hardiness Zone

4