Yucca whipplei has 1.5 " cream colored flowers
on a stalk that looks too large to belong to the spike tipped grass-like foliage.
When looking up into the sage brush covered hillside Yucca stalks stand out like no other
in the late spring. They bloom for about a month in May and early June.
Once individual Yucca whipplei plants bloom that plant dies. Sometimes there are
offsets, often there are seedlings. Yucca whipplei will live for several years before blooming.
A dry slope is preferred by Yucca whipplei. It seems from the pain
received from
a poke that there must be more on the spikes at the tips of the leaves than just a sharp
point. Most of the Yucca plant is edible from the
pith of the new stalk to the flowers and seeds. And even the sharp
points were used along with their connected fibers.
High resolution images
of Yucca whipplei are available
