Description | Yucca Color Guard (Yucca filamentosa) ia a Yucca cultivar with yellow striped leaves that hold up throughout the entire summer. |
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Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Broadleaf Evergreen |
Hardiness Zone | 4-10 |
Sunlight | full |
Moisture | average to dry |
Soil & Site | average to well drained |
Flowers | paniculate inflorescence is produced on a 5 foot scape, florets are pendulous, bell shaped, white |
Leaves | lance shaped, sharp pointed leaves have yellow margins with a green center |
Stems | crown |
Dimensions | foliage reaches 3 by 3 feet plus the 5 foot flower stalk |
Maintenance | Each spring the dead leaves from the base of the plant will need to be removed. Heavy gloves and wear a long sleeve shirt to help eliminate cuts. They also seem to be great garbage collectors. Every fast food wrapper and soda can in the neighborhood ends up in my plants. |
Propagation | division |
Cultivar Origin | Japan |