OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 6 taxa in the family Agavaceae, Agave family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Spanish Dagger, Aloe Yucca

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Yucca aloifolia   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Yucca aloifolia   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Yucca aloifolia 041-12-001   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Dunes; also cultivated and persistent

Uncommon in Coastal Plain (waifs in NC Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Mound-lily Yucca, Spanish Bayonet

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Yucca gloriosa   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Yucca gloriosa   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Yucca gloriosa 041-12-002   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Dunes, shell middens, also regularly cultivated and often persistent or weakly escaped around old homesites inland

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, rare in NC

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Curve-leaf Yucca

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Yucca recurvifolia   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Yucca recurvifolia   FAMILY: Agavaceae

 

Habitat: Dunes, dry sandy soils

Rare

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Beargrass, Spoonleaf Yucca, Curlyleaf Yucca

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Yucca filamentosa   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Yucca filamentosa   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Yucca filamentosa var. filamentosa 041-12-003a   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Woodlands, forests, dunes, roadsides, disturbed areas

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Weakleaf Yucca

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Yucca flaccida   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Yucca flaccida   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Yucca filamentosa var. smalliana 041-12-003b   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Thin soils around rock outcrops, woodlands, roadsides, disturbed areas

Uncommon in GA, rare in the Carolinas

Native to parts of the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Eastern Agave, Eastern False-aloe, Rattlesnake-master, American Aloe

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Agave virginica   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Manfreda virginica   FAMILY: Agavaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Agave virginica 044-08-001   FAMILY: Amaryllidaceae

 

Habitat: Granite flatrocks, diabase glades, limestone and dolomite barrens and glades, xeric woodlands over mafic or calcareous rocks, sandhill woodlands, dry roadbanks

Uncommon in GA & SC, rare in NC

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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"The plant's reproductive organs occupy the center of the normal flower. The female part consists of one or more pistils, each containing an ovary, which after fertilization expands and forms the fruit." — Lawrence Newcomb, Newcomb's Wildflower Guide