Plant: Color Guard - Yucca
Yucca · Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard'
Size: 3 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
A clumping yucca whose sword shaped basal leaves carry a gold stripe down the center with green margins and curly thread like filaments along the edges. The foliage clump holds at about two to three feet each way, and tall panicles of waxy creamy white bell shaped flowers rise well above it from April to June. It is easy care and drought and heat tolerant, growing in sun or part shade on almost any soil including shallow rocky ground, and tolerates deer, rabbits, salt, erosion and urban conditions. Use it as an accent, a container thriller or a barrier planting.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 3 ft tall and 3 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-10
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A clumping yucca whose sword shaped basal leaves carry a gold stripe down the center with green margins and curly thread like filaments along the edges. The foliage clump holds at about two to three feet each way, and tall panicles of waxy creamy white bell shaped flowers rise well above it from April to June. It is easy care and drought and heat tolerant, growing in sun or part shade on almost any soil including shallow rocky ground, and tolerates deer, rabbits, salt, erosion and urban conditions. Use it as an accent, a container thriller or a barrier planting.
- Flowers
- Waxy creamy white bell shaped flowers on five to six foot tall panicles, blooming April to June.
- Foliage
- Stemless sword shaped leaves in a basal rosette with a gold stripe down the center, sharply pointed, margins inrolled with curly thread like filaments, up to eighteen inches long.
- Native range
- Southeastern USA
