Scientific name:
Yucca pallida
Common name:
Twistleaf yucca, pale-leaf yucca, pale yucca
Range:
Scattered locations in northeast and central Texas, between Dallas and San Antonio
Form:
Small, thin-leafed rosettes; solitary or clump-forming
Habitat:
Rocky locations, plains, plateaus
Flowers:
Pale green to pale yellow, on a thin, branched spike up to 8 feet tall. Up to 100 flowers per cluster. Blooms in early summer
The two common names of yucca pallida, pale-leaf yucca and twist-leaf yucca, reflect the foliage, which is lighter in color than most other species - pale, bluish-green, and also somewhat irregularly curved. This is a relatively small, stemless species; leaves are up to 15 inches long and little more than one inch across, widest at the middle. They terminate in a yellowish-brown spine. Leaf edges are hairless but finely serrated, and often brown in color, while leaf surfaces have a whitish, waxy coating. Leaf edges tend to fold inwards towards the tip.
This species is most similar to, and hybridizes with, yucca rupicola, another wavy-leafed plant from central Texas.
This species is most similar to, and hybridizes with, yucca rupicola, another wavy-leafed plant from central Texas.
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