Spanish Dagger
Yucca treculeana
Spanish dagger is a stout, trunked yucca with sharp blue-green blades and huge spring clusters of creamy bells, a dramatic, drought- and cold-tolerant evergreen for the South.
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 5–15 ft
- Spacing
- 4–8 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- February, March, April
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, larval host
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- TX