Yucca L.
Distribution
Native to:
Alabama, Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, Belize, Bermuda, California, Colorado, Costa Rica, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Panamá, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Introduced into:
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Free State, Galápagos, Great Britain, Haiti, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Kentucky, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Marianas, Massachusetts, Mauritius, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New York, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Romania, Réunion, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uruguay, Windward Is.
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Clistoyucca (Engelm.) Trel. in Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 13: 41 (1902)
- Codonocrinum Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f. in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 7: 718 (1829)
- Samuela Trel. in Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 13: 116 (1902)
- Sarcoyucca (Trel.) Linding. in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 50(1): 446 (1933)
Accepted Species
- Yucca aloifolia L.
- Yucca angustissima Engelm. ex Trel.
- Yucca arkansana Trel.
- Yucca baccata Torr.
- Yucca baileyi Wooton & Standl.
- Yucca brevifolia Engelm.
- Yucca campestris McKelvey
- Yucca capensis L.W.Lenz
- Yucca carnerosana (Trel.) McKelvey
- Yucca cernua E.L.Keith
- Yucca coahuilensis Matuda & I.Piña
- Yucca constricta Buckley
- Yucca decipiens Trel.
- Yucca declinata Laferr.
- Yucca desmetiana Baker
- Yucca elata (Engelm.) Engelm.
- Yucca endlichiana Trel.
- Yucca faxoniana (Trel.) Sarg.
- Yucca feeanoukiae Hochstätter
- Yucca filamentosa L.
- Yucca filifera Chabaud
- Yucca flaccida Haw.
- Yucca gigantea Lem.
- Yucca glauca Nutt.
- Yucca gloriosa L.
- Yucca grandiflora Gentry
- Yucca harrimaniae Trel.
- Yucca intermedia McKelvey
- Yucca jaliscensis (Trel.) Trel.
- Yucca lacandonica Gómez Pompa & J.Valdés
- Yucca linearifolia Clary
- Yucca luminosa ined.
- Yucca madrensis Gentry
- Yucca mixtecana García-Mend.
- Yucca necopina Shinners
- Yucca neomexicana Wooton & Standl.
- Yucca pallida McKelvey
- Yucca periculosa Baker
- Yucca pinicola Zamudio
- Yucca potosina Rzed.
- Yucca queretaroensis Piña Luján
- Yucca reverchonii Trel.
- Yucca rostrata Engelm. ex Trel.
- Yucca rupicola Scheele
- Yucca schidigera Roezl ex Ortgies
- Yucca × schottii Engelm.
- Yucca sterilis (Neese & S.L.Welsh) S.L.Welsh & L.C.Higgins
- Yucca tenuistyla Trel.
- Yucca thompsoniana Trel.
- Yucca treculiana Carrière
- Yucca utahensis McKelvey
- Yucca valida Brandegee
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34611.000 | No |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images