Yucca

Accepted species 51 Documented here 35 Family Asparagaceae

Accepted species 51 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Yucca elata (Engelm.) Engelm. 11,252 documented
Yucca schidigera Roezl ex Ortgies 2,857 documented
Yucca brevifolia Engelm. 2,684 documented
Yucca baccata Torr. 2,196 documented
Yucca faxoniana (Trel.) Sarg. 1,372 documented
Yucca glauca Nutt. 791 documented
Yucca rupicola Scheele 482 documented
Yucca filamentosa L. 479 documented
Yucca pallida McKelvey 298 documented
Yucca gloriosa L. 285 documented
Yucca madrensis Gentry 239 documented
Yucca constricta Buckley 235 documented
Yucca aloifolia L. 226 documented
Yucca flaccida Haw. 182 documented
Yucca arkansana Trel. 164 documented
Yucca angustissima Engelm. ex Trel. 132 documented
Yucca gigantea Lem. 126 documented
Yucca filifera Chabaud 118 documented
Yucca campestris McKelvey 112 documented
Yucca baileyi Wooton & Standl. 63 documented
Yucca capensis L.W.Lenz 59 documented
Yucca decipiens Trel. 56 documented
Yucca harrimaniae Trel. 52 documented
Yucca necopina Shinners 48 documented
Yucca reverchonii Trel. 48 documented
Yucca carnerosana (Trel.) McKelvey 47 documented
Yucca cernua E.L.Keith 43 documented
Yucca utahensis McKelvey 35 documented
Yucca valida Brandegee 34 documented
Yucca thompsoniana Trel. 28 documented
Yucca rostrata Engelm. ex Trel. 14 documented
Yucca periculosa Baker 12 documented
Yucca endlichiana Trel. 8 documented
Yucca jaliscensis (Trel.) Trel. 7 documented
Yucca linearifolia Clary 4 documented
Yucca potosina Rzed. 2 below the evidence gate
Yucca grandiflora Gentry 1 below the evidence gate
Yucca intermedia McKelvey 1 below the evidence gate
Yucca mixtecana García-Mend. 1 below the evidence gate
Yucca × schottii Engelm. 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca coahuilensis Matuda & I.L.Pina 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca de-smetiana Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca declinata Laferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca feeanoukiae Hochstätter 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca lacandonica Gómez Pompa & J.Valdés 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca luminosa M.H.J.van der Meer 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca neomexicana Wooton & Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca queretaroensis Piña Luján 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca sterilis (Neese & S.L.Welsh) S.L.Welsh & L.C.Higgins 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca tenuistyla Trel. 0 below the evidence gate
Yucca treculeana Carrière 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.