Details for: PARL 857, Yucca rupicola Scheele, PARL 857


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Yucca rupicola Scheele
Top Name:
PARL 857
Origin:
Collected – Texas, United States
Received by NPGS:
19 Feb 2010
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Yucca rupicola Scheele
Top Name:
PARL 857
Origin:
Collected – Texas, United States
Received by NPGS:
19 Feb 2010
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
17 November 2009.
Texas, United States
Locality: The seeds were collected at Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. The plants were located west of downtown near the intersection of 30 and US 183 at the intersection of Greenoaks Road and Ridgemar Blvd.
Coordinates: 32.4473, 97.2594 (Map it)
Elevation: 208m.
Environment description: The plants favor both rocky limestone hillsides and grassy flats. The site is a prairie remnant on urbanland unaltered by construction. It is shallow to very shallow and gently sloping to sloping (1 to 3%) on convex ridgetops underlain by fractured limestone. The plant community is a prairie of mid and tall grasses interspersed with an abundance of forbs.

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Accession Names and Identifiers
PARL 857
Type: Site identifier

Narrative
This accession has narrow, undulate, olive-green leaves that twist as they age. The leaf margins can be yellow, orange or red, with sharp teeth. Twist leaf yucca will grow in sun or partial shade, and is useful for planting on problem sites such as rocky slopes or sites with poor dry soil over rock.
Yucca rupicola Scheele
Genus:
Yucca
Section:
Chaenocarpa
Family:
Asparagaceae
Subfamily:
Agavoideae
Nomen number:

42161
Place of publication:

Linnaea 23:143. 1850
Verified:
02/15/2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
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Autonym(s)
Yucca rupicola Scheele var. rupicola

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishtwisted-leaf Spanish-dagger  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
Englishtwist-leaf yucca  1FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
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