Yucca neomexicana

Yucca neomexicana Wooton & Standl.[2] is a plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to New Mexico, Colorado and Oklahoma. Common name is "New Mexican Spanish Bayonet." It is similar to Y. harrimaniae Trel. but with a longer flowering stalk and white (rather than yellowish) flowers.[3][4]

New Mexican Spanish Bayonet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Agavoideae
Genus: Yucca
Species:
Y. neomexicana
Binomial name
Yucca neomexicana
Synonyms[1]
  • Yucca harrimaniae var. neomexicana (Wooton & Standl.) Reveal
  • Yucca harrimaniae subsp. neomexicana (Wooton& Standl.) Hochstätter

References
  1. Tropicos Yucca harrimaniae
  2. Wooton & Standley, Contributions of the U. S. National Herbarium 16: 115 (1913)
  3. Reveal, James Lauritz. 1977. Intermountain Flora; vascular plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. New York. 6: 530. Yucca harrimaniae var. neomexicana
  4. Hochstätter, Fritz. 1999. Cactaceae Rev. 1(2): 21, Yucca harrimaniae subsp. neomexicana
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