Also called soaptree, soapweed and palmella.  Despite this last common name, not a 🌴︎ palm  family Arecaceae.

Instead, part of ⚶ yucca  genus Yucca (whose ❀ flower is the ❀ state flower of New Mexico) in asparagus  family Asparagaceae.

Native to the 🏜 Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts in 🇲🇽 Mexico and 🇺🇸 USA.   🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key), 🗺 map (North America, Central America).  Adobe Acrobat Reader file

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)

Yucca hosts caterpillars of 29 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.

Learn more about soaptree yucca Yucca elata

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