Yucca glauca Nutt.
other common names: beargrass, grass cactus, small soapweed, soap root, Spanish bayonet
Yucca: the native Haitian name for this genus
Glauca: from Greek, meaning generally “grayish or bluish green”
Lily family: Liliaceae (sometimes Agavaceae)
Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition
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