Yucca faxoniana(Trel.) Sarg.

Eve's needle

WFO wfo-0000752238 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Yucca faxoniana, photographed by CK2AZ
fig. a CK2AZ, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-17 / obs. 183840622
Yucca faxoniana, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. b Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123448826
Yucca faxoniana, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. c Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 123448667
Yucca faxoniana, photographed by Luis Fuentes Castillo
fig. d Luis Fuentes Castillo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 68829930
Yucca faxoniana, photographed by Luis Fuentes Castillo
fig. e Luis Fuentes Castillo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 68744769
Yucca faxoniana, photographed by Kevin Floyd
fig. f Kevin Floyd, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197695843
Yucca faxoniana, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. g Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 162554025
Yucca faxoniana, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. h Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116572227

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Yucca faxoniana is native: Mexico Northeast, New Mexico, Texas Mexico NortheastNew MexicoTexas
Native distribution of Yucca faxoniana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Northeast MXE NORTHERN AMERICA
New Mexico NWM
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 10 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.

  • Samuela faxonia Trel.
  • Samuela faxoniana Trel.
  • Sarcoyucca australis (Trel.) Linding.
  • Sarcoyucca macrocarpa (Torr.) Linding.
  • Yucca australis Trel.
  • Yucca australis var. valida M.E.Jones
  • Yucca baccata var. macrocarpa Torr.
  • Yucca macrocarpa (Torr.) Coville
  • Yucca torreyi Shafer
  • Yucca torreyi f. parviflora McKelvey

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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