Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures ( Shrubs ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Beaked Yucca, Big Bend yucca, Soyate, Palmita (Yucca rostrata), Texas native which is listed as endemic by some references, but it grows in Mexico too, perennial, blooms in may through August

Beaked yucca is a native plant that naturally inhabits only western Texas and northern Mexico in the states of Chihuahua and Coahuila. Beaked yucca, is usually found growing on rocky bajadas, ridges or slopes that are comprised of limestone gravel. It grows much faster in alkaline soils.

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/45486/

The beaked yuccas are the two large specimens in the center of the photo. They are groring at the Sunken Gardens in San Antonio.


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