Yucca arkansanaTrel.

Arkansas Yucca

WFO wfo-0000752097 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Yucca arkansana, photographed by Kyle M. Simpson
fig. a Kyle M. Simpson, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-05-04 / obs. 71565125
Yucca arkansana, photographed by brybrysciguy
fig. b brybrysciguy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71647164
Yucca arkansana, photographed by Samantha Knight
fig. c Samantha Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181792875
Yucca arkansana, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. d saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154844307
Yucca arkansana, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. e Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138222215
Yucca arkansana, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. f Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45520552
Yucca arkansana, photographed by brybrysciguy
fig. g brybrysciguy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69404747
Yucca arkansana, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. h Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94727748

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 39 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 39 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Yucca angustifolia var. mollis Engelm.
  • Yucca arkansana var. paniculata McKelvey
  • Yucca glauca var. mollis (Engelm.) Branner & Coville
  • Yucca louisianensis var. paniculata (McKelvey) Shinners

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.