"Yucca"                   also called "Beargrass" or "Adam's Needle"

Yucca filamentosa (Y. Smalliana)

Lily family (Liliaceae)

• A monocot
• Slow-growing to about 10 feet
• Evergreen
• Produces straps of leaves from a single, or branched stem
• Coarse, white fibers emerging from the margins of the leaf
• Some botanists classify these plants into a separate family (Agavaceae)
• Other Yucca species are common to the desert of the Southwest U.S.
• Also called "Beargrass", the Yucca that black bears consumed and rubbed their backs in, that probably provides the name for Beargrass Creek (on Newburg Road by the Bellarmine track). There is an alternative, but probably incorrect, theory that the stream's name is a corruption of the French "La Barre Grosse Crique"...meaning "the big bar creek" (the "bar" would be the Falls of Ohio).

Xeriscaping with Agave, Aloe, Cacti, Cactus, ...

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