Yucca gloriosa/Spanish Daggar

Relatively soft foliage hanging below the main crown of this yucca
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Relatively soft foliage hanging below the main crown of this yucca	A specimen plant in a garden setting	This yucca has soft, flexible foliage but still a sharp point on the tip of each leaf
Old plants will eventually grow to have short trunks as this grouping shows	White, bell-shapped, hanging flowers in spring and summer	An individual flowering stalk may have many, many blossoms
Six flowering stalks in late spring in the Gulf South


Scientific Name:	Yucca gloriosa
Common Name:	Spanish Daggar
Plant Type:	Evergreen
Leaf Type:	Broadleaf
Hardiness Zone:	6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Determine Your Zone
Height:	2- 5 feet
Spread:	3 -5 feet
Bloom time:	Summer, Fall
Flower color:	White
Fruit present:	Fall
Fruit color:	Brown
Light Exposure:	Sun
Drainage:	Well drained, Moist, Dry
Rate of Growth:	Slow
Water Requirement:	Low
Maintenance Level:	Low
Susceptible to insects and diseases:	No

Comments:	The large rosette of foliage is silvery gray and the leaves are somewhat soft and flexible. Tall spikes with nodding, bell-shaped flowers are quite striking on mature plants. Always provide well drained soils and full sunlight for growing yuccas. This one lives a long time and eventually the yucca will produce short trunks with a crown of foliage.