Yucca filiferaChabaud

tree yucca

WFO wfo-0000752239 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Yucca filifera, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. a Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-18 / obs. 191239408
Yucca filifera, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. b Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171783384
Yucca filifera, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. c Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 191213218
Yucca filifera, photographed by José Gerardo Velasco
fig. d José Gerardo Velasco, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194565811
Yucca filifera, photographed by Rodolfo Salinas Villarreal
fig. e Rodolfo Salinas Villarreal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156063105
Yucca filifera, photographed by Comisión Estatal de Biodiversidad del Estado de Hidalgo
fig. f Comisión Estatal de Biodiversidad del Estado de Hidalgo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 153573896
Yucca filifera, photographed by José Gerardo Velasco
fig. g José Gerardo Velasco, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125692496
Yucca filifera, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. h Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187200295

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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 = 70 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 70 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 2 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.

  • Yucca baccata var. filifera (Chabaud) Schelle
  • Yucca canaliculata var. filifera (Chabaud) Fenzl

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.