Yucca filamentosaL.

common yucca

WFO wfo-0000752251 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Yucca filamentosa, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. a Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 195107016
Yucca filamentosa, photographed by Anthony A Simmons
fig. b Anthony A Simmons, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195590189
Yucca filamentosa, photographed by Ryan Watson
fig. c Ryan Watson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179161883
Yucca filamentosa, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. d Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171694019
Yucca filamentosa, photographed by Athena Philips
fig. e Athena Philips, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179744211
Yucca filamentosa, photographed by geosesarma
fig. f geosesarma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174024310
Yucca filamentosa, photographed by Judy Gallagher
fig. g Judy Gallagher, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 178329950
Yucca filamentosa, photographed by Daniel McNair
fig. h Daniel McNair, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170272977

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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 = 416 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 416 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 14 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 filamentosa f. genuina Engelm.
  • Yucca filamentosa var. bracteata Engelm.
  • Yucca filamentosa var. elmensis Sprenger
  • Yucca filamentosa var. filamentosa
  • Yucca filamentosa var. laevigata Engelm.
  • Yucca filamentosa var. latifolia Engelm.
  • Yucca filamentosa var. maxima Carrière
  • Yucca filamentosa var. media Carrière
  • Yucca filamentosa var. mexicana S.Schauer
  • Yucca filamentosa var. nobilis Sprenger
  • Yucca filamentosa var. patens Carrière
  • Yucca filamentosa var. ramosa Carrière
  • Yucca filamentosa var. recurvifolia Alph.Wood
  • Yucca filamentosa var. variegata Carrière

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.