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.