Also called Faxon yucca, 🇪🇸 Spanish dagger (although do not confuse with sister-species
⚶ Mojave yucca Yucca schidigera,
which is also sometimes called that), Yucca treculeana, Yucca torreyi, and more.
Part of
⚶ yucca genus Yucca
(whose ❀ flower is the ❀ state flower of New Mexico)
in
asparagus family Asparagaceae.
Native to the 🏜 Chihuahuan Desert of northern 🇲🇽 Mexico, southern New Mexico, and southwestern Texas.
🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48)
(color key),
🗺 map (North America, Central America). 
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
Yucca hosts caterpillars of 29 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.