Arkansas Yucca
Yucca arkansananative · Hill Country
Arkansas Yucca is a shrub native to the Texas Hill Country that grows 1–4 ft tall and 5 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles caliche and clay soil. Blooms white and green in May–Oct. Evergreen — it holds its leaves through winter. Good for moths.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Shrub
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–7 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 1–4 ft
- Spread
- 5 ft
- Bloom
- May–Oct · white, green
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Soil
- Takes caliche and clay · recorded on clay, dry, limestone, loam, sand, well drained
- Wildlife
- Supports moths
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Balcones CanyonlandsEdwards Plateau WoodlandNorthern Blackland PrairieSouthern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low TerracesLimestone Cut PlainSan Antonio Prairie
114 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.