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© Ernie Marx
Soapweed/Plains Yucca
Yucca glauca
Fort Collins
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.0 ft. to 4.0 ft.
Spread: 3.0 ft. to 4.0 ft. - Growth Form
- Shrub
- Program Association
- Nature in the City, Xeriscape Incentive Program
- Wildlife Uses
- Amphibians/Reptiles, Hummingbirds, Large Mammals, Pollinators/ Invertebrates, Small Mammals
- Sun Requirements
- Full Sun
- Water Requirements
- Very Low
- Plant Community
- Foothills, Plains
- Season of Bloom
- May, June, July
- Flower Color
- Green Shades, White Shades
- Leaf Color
- Blue Shades, Green Shades
- Aggressiveness
- Not aggressive
- Design Considerations
- Evergreen, Streetscape Plants, Winter Interest
- Other Considerations
- No City Data
- Duration
- Perennial
- Natural Landscape Position
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Fort Collins Model
1, 2 - Soil Type
- Salty, Well Drained
- Pests/Disease Prone
- No
- Hazards/Toxic
- Careful! Sharp Spines, Thorns Or Other Appendages.
Notes
Yuccas have a mutualistic relationship with the Tegeticula genus of moths. Females pollinate the yuccas while laying their eggs in the flowers. The larva, once hatched, will eat some of the seeds. If they eat too many, the yucca will abort the fruit, which will also kill the larva, making sure that the plant and the moth maintain their mutualistic relationship.
Salt tolerant.