YUCCA 



(The Indian name for the Manihot, erroneously applied to this plant) 

 Liliacftz 



II. Yucca filamentosa 



English Names: Adam's needle, Adam's needle and thread, Thready yucca, 

 Eve's thread, Thread and needle. Eve's darning needle. Bear's thread. Bear 

 grass, Silk grass. 



SOUTHEASTERN U. S. A. MID-JUNE THROUGH JULY 



CREAMY-white flowers like very small Magnolia blossoms, borne 

 pendently in long loose spikes on erect stems four to six feet high. 

 Leaves evergreen in a clump at the base of the flower stalks, long and 

 narrow, about one inch 

 wide, very sharply 

 pointed, stiff and erect 

 toward the centre, but 

 recurving at the outside 

 of the clump, grayish 

 green with threadlike 

 fibres along the edges. 

 Excellent for formal 

 clumps in the herbaceous 

 border or for planting 

 against a background of 

 shrubbery. 



A perfectly hard\ 

 perennial of easiest cul- 

 ture in any well-drained 

 soil, in sun. Being a 

 desert plant, it grows well 

 in barren places, and 

 thrives best in sand\ 

 loam. 



Propagate by seed, 

 offsets, or by stem cut 

 tings. 



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