Yucca baccataTorr.

Banana Yucca

WFO wfo-0000752057 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Yucca baccata, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. a Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-27 / obs. 205955458
Yucca baccata, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. b Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195805430
Yucca baccata, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. c Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199678725
Yucca baccata, photographed by Wendy St. John
fig. d Wendy St. John, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198965939
Yucca baccata, photographed by Robbie Hannawacker
fig. e Robbie Hannawacker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195204836
Yucca baccata, photographed by bmasinton
fig. f bmasinton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194437039
Yucca baccata, photographed by bmasinton
fig. g bmasinton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 196304076
Yucca baccata, photographed by bmasinton
fig. h bmasinton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193163349

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 607 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 607 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Sarcoyucca baccata (Torr.) Linding.
  • Yucca arizonica McKelvey
  • Yucca baccata f. fragilifolia (Baker) Voss
  • Yucca baccata f. genuina Engelm.
  • Yucca baccata subsp. thornberi (McKelvey) Hochstätter
  • Yucca baccata subsp. vespertina (McKelvey) Hochstätter
  • Yucca baccata var. hystrix Baker
  • Yucca baccata var. vespertina McKelvey
  • Yucca brevifolia Schott ex Trel.
  • Yucca confinis McKelvey
  • Yucca filifera Engelm.
  • Yucca fragilifolia Baker
  • Yucca hanburyi Baker
  • Yucca scabrifolia Baker
  • Yucca thornberi McKelvey
  • Yucca treleasei J.F.Macbr.
  • Yucca vespertina (McKelvey) S.L.Welsh

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.