Taxon: Yucca flaccida Haw.

Common names:

• Adam's-needle   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• bear-grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• flaccid-leaf yucca   (Source: Yucca II 278. 2002) – English
  
• schlaffe Palmlilie   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Yucca I 221. 2000)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Michigan [s.], Ohio [s.], Pennsylvania
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Kansas [e.], Missouri, Oklahoma [e.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas [e.]

• probably naturalized in northern part of range

References:

• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist. (L Georgia)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gentry, H. S. 1972. The agave family in Sonora. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 399. (Agave Sonora)
• Hochstätter, F. & G. Hentzschel. 2002. Yucca II (Agavaceae): (indehiscent-fruited species) in the Southwest, Midwest and East of the USA. (Yucca II) 278–280.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin) [= Y. filamentosa L.].
• Ward, D. B. 2006. A nomenclatural history of southeastern filiferous Yucca, with selection of a neotype for Y. flaccida. Castanea 71:80–84.

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Check other databases for Yucca flaccida Haw.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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