Plants Profile for Yucca glauca (soapweed yucca)

General Information
Symbol:	YUGL
Group:	Monocot
Family:	Agavaceae
Duration:	Perennial
Growth Habit:	Forb/herb Shrub Subshrub
Native Status:	CAN N L48 N
Characteristics
Data Source and Documentation

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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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Clarence A. Rechenthin. Provided by USDA NRCS East Texas PMC (ETPMC). Usage Requirements.

Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. United States, MT. Usage Requirements.

©James L. Reveal. Provided by Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany. Usage Requirements.

©W.L. Wagner. Provided by Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany. Usage Requirements.

©James L. Reveal. Provided by Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 1: 512. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass	Liliidae
Order	Liliales
Family	Agavaceae – Century-plant family
Genus	Yucca L. – yucca
Species	Yucca glauca Nutt. – soapweed yucca

Subordinate Taxa

The Plants Database includes the following 2 subspecies of Yucca glauca . Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles.

Native

Introduced

Native and Introduced

Distribution of <i>Yucca glauca</i> Nutt. var. <i>glauca </i>

Yucca glauca var. glauca
soapweed yucca

Distribution of <i>Yucca glauca</i> Nutt. var. <i>gurneyi</i> McKelvey

Yucca glauca var. gurneyi
Gurney's yucca

Legal Status

U.S. Weed Information
Yucca glauca Great Plains yucca Spanish bayonet beargrass small soapweed soapweed yucca yucca This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
NE&GP	Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe,and M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska.
WSWS	Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al.. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming.

Wetland Status

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