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Shrub
Softleaf Yucca
Yucca recurvifolia
Bold spiky form with softer, bending leaf tips — safer near walkways than stiff yuccas. White flower stalks in summer.
Recommended uses
- Rock gardens
- Accent
- Xeriscapes
- Plant type
- Succulent
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Evergreen
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Shade tolerance
- Moderate
- Water needs
- Low
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Bloom color
- White
- Mature height
- 3–6 ft
- Mature width
- 3–6 ft
- Maintenance
- Low
- Texas heat tolerance
- High
- Drought tolerance
- High