Yucca sterilis
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| Yucca sterilis | |
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| File:Yucca harrimanniae subsp. sterilis fh 1179. 78 UT B.jpg | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Agavoideae |
| Genus: | Yucca |
| Species: | Y. sterilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Yucca sterilis (Neese & S.L.Welsh) S.L.Welsh & L.C.Higgins
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Yucca sterilis is a species in the family Asparagaceae, native to the Uintah Basin region in Duchesne and Uintah Counties, Utah.[2][3] It is closely related to Y. harrimaniae Trel. Yucca sterilis is an acaulescent (trunkless) species spreading by underground rhizomes. The inflorescence is up to 40 cm tall, with flowers white or sometimes tinged with violet along the edges of the tepals.[4][5][6]
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- ↑ The Plant List
- ↑ S.L.Welsh & L.C.Higgins, Utah Flora, ed. 4: 779 (2008)
- ↑ Bennys Cactus Yucca sterilis
- ↑ S.L.Welsh & L.C.Higgins, Utah Flora, ed. 4: 779 (2008)
- ↑ Hochstaetter, Cactaceae-Review IRT 1 (2):21 (1998)
- ↑ Neese & Welsh, Great Basin Naturalist 45(4):789-790 (1985)