Common Name: CENTURY PLANT FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb, shrub, tree, fibrous succulent or not, from bulbs or rhizomes. Stem: above ground or not, branched or not. Leaf: simple, deciduous or not, basal or in terminal rosettes, generally sessile, linear, lanceolate, oblanceolate or ovate, fibrous or not, thin and flexible or thick and rigid or succulent; margin entire, fine-serrate, dentate, or with filaments, tips rigid or flexible, with a spine or not. Flower: bisexual; perianth parts 6, in 2 petal-like whorls, free or +- fused; stamens 6, +- fused to perianth, filaments often wide, succulent; ovary superior or inferior, chambers 3, style 1 (thick, poorly defined), stigma head-like or 3-lobed. Fruit: capsule, indehiscent, loculicidal, or septicidal. Seed: few to many, +- flat or ovoid, generally black. Genera In Family: 24 genera, 637 species: worldwide. eFlora Treatment Author: Dale W. McNeal, except as noted Scientific Editor: Dale W. McNeal, Thomas J. Rosatti, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Yucca jaegeriana (McKelvey) L.W. Lenz
NATIVE Habit: Plant 3--6(--9) m. Stem: erect, above ground, trunk distinct or not, generally branched < 1 m above plant base, branches forked or irregular, +- slender, rosettes at tips, well above ground. Leaf: 10--21 cm, 0.5--1(--1.5) cm wide, dark green, expanded base 2--3 cm, 3--4(--6) cm wide, +- white, margins minute-serrate, yellow. Inflorescence: +- 3 dm, distal generally +- 1/2 exserted from rosettes. Flower: erect; perianth generally 3--4 cm, narrow-bell-shaped, parts narrow-oblong, recurved at tip, +- fused at base, cream to +- green; filaments thick; pistil +- 3.5 cm. Fruit: capsule, spreading to erect in age, 5--10 cm, +- ellipsoid, dry, spongy, or leathery in youth. Ecology: Desert flats, slopes; Elevation: 700--1800 m. Bioregional Distribution: e DMoj (e San Bernardino Co.); Distribution Outside California: to southwestern Utah, western Arizona. Flowering Time: Mar--May Note: Pollinated by the yucca moth Tegeticula antithetica. Synonyms: Yucca brevifolia var. jaegeriana McKelvey Jepson eFlora Author: William J. Hess & Bruce G. Baldwin Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Yucca brevifolia Next taxon: Yucca schidigera
Citation for this treatment: William J. Hess & Bruce G. Baldwin 2022, Yucca jaegeriana, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 10, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=89180, accessed on October 02, 2023.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2023, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on October 02, 2023.
Geographic subdivisions for Yucca jaegeriana:
e DMoj (e San Bernardino Co.)
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