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8a. Yucca gloriosa var. gloriosa
Mound-lily yucca
Plants caulescent, branching near summits, to 5 m. Leaf blade mostly erect, blue-green, lanceolate, 40–70 × 4–6 cm, rigid, becoming more flexible with age, glaucous, margins brown. Inflorescences extending 4–5 dm beyond rosettes, ovoid to ellipsoid, 7.5–12 dm; peduncle 0.9–1.5 m. Flowers: tepals white to creamy white, 4–5 × 2–2.5 cm; filaments granular or powdery, pubescent. Berries pendent, 6-ribbed, 5.5–8 cm.
Flowering spring. Coastal dunes; 0 m; Ga., N.C., S.C.
Yucca gloriosa var. gloriosa is usually cultivated in the southern United States and persists at old homesites. Named forms have been based on habit and leaf morphology.
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