Also called Faxon yucca, 🇪🇸 Spanish dagger (although do not confuse with sister species ⚶ Mojave yucca  Yucca schidigera which is also 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.  Adobe Acrobat Reader file

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)

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

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