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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).
References to yucca root as food often arise from confusion with the similarly pronounced, but botanically unrelated, yuca, also called cassava or manioc (Manihot esculenta). Roots of soaptree yucca (Yucca elata) are high in saponins and are used as a shampoo in Native American rituals. Dried yucca leaves and trunk fibers have a low ignition ...
Yucca: yuccas; Yucca elata: soaptree yucca Agavaceae (agave family) Yes Yucca faxoniana: giant dagger Agavaceae (agave family) Yucca rostrata: beaked yucca Agavaceae (agave family) Yes Yucca thompsoniana: Thompson's yucca Agavaceae (agave family) Yes Yucca torreyi: Torrey's yucca Agavaceae (agave family) Yes Yes Yes Yucca treculeana: Spanish dagger
Many of California's Native American tribes traditionally used soaproot, or the root of various yucca species, as a fish poison. They would pulverize the roots, then mix the powder in water to create a foam, and then add the suds to a stream.
Angelica wheeleri – Utah angelica [3]; Conium maculatum†‡ [2] – hemlock, poison hemlock; Cymopterus basalticus – Intermountain wavewing; Cymopterus beckii – featherleaf springparsley, Beck springparsley, pinnate springparsley
Yucca rostrata [3] also called beaked yucca, is a tree-like plant belonging to the genus Yucca. The species is native to Texas , and the Chihuahua and Coahuila regions of Mexico . This species of Yucca occurs in areas that are arid with little annual rainfall, normally Bw climates (desert) and Bs climates (steppe or semiarid).
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.
In the Chihuahuan Desert they include soaptree (Yucca elata), creosote (Larrea tridentata), and atriplex (Atriplex spp.). [1] In China nabkhas form quite often around Caragana microphylla , as well as Cleistogenes squarrosa , Leymus chinensis , Caragana stenophylla , Stipa grandis , and S. glareosa , [ 5 ] plus tamarisks , reeds , and alhagi .