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Yucca elata is a perennial plant, with common names that include soaptree, soaptree yucca, soapweed, and palmella. [3] [4] It is native to southwestern North America, in the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert in the United States (western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona), southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora, Nuevo León).
Yucca glauca (syn. Yucca angustifolia) is a species of perennial evergreen plant, adapted to xeric (dry) growth conditions. It is also known as small soapweed, [3] soapweed yucca, Spanish bayonet, [4] and Great Plains yucca. Yucca glauca forms colonies of rosettes. Leaves are long and narrow, up to 60 cm long but rarely more than 12 mm across.
The common names soap plant, soaproot and amole refer to the genus Chlorogalum. They are native to western North America , with some species in Oregon but they are mostly found in California . Common names of the genus and several species derive from their use as soap .
Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. [2] Its 40–50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers.
The Joshua tree is called "hunuvat chiy'a" or "humwichawa" by the indigenous Cahuilla. [11] It is also called izote de desierto (Spanish, "desert dagger"). [12] It was first formally described in the botanical literature as Yucca brevifolia by George Engelmann in 1871 as part of the Geological Exploration of the 100th meridian (or "Wheeler Survey").
Like all the soap plants, Chlorogalum pomeridianum is a perennial that grows from a bulb, which is brown, between 7 and 15 cm in diameter, slightly elongated, and covered in thick, coarse fibers. The leaves grow from the base of the plant, and can be from 20 to 70 cm long and 6 to 25 mm wide. [ 1 ]
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