Dasylirion acrotrichum

Dasylirion acrotrichum, the great desert spoon and green sotol (also, spoon yucca, though not a true Yucca now), is a plant native to the Chihuahuan Desert and other xeric habitats in northern and central Mexico.[2]

Dasylirion acrotrichum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Nolinoideae
Genus: Dasylirion
Species:
D. acrotrichum
Binomial name
Dasylirion acrotrichum
(Schiede) Zucc.
Synonyms[1]
  • Yucca acrotricha Schiede
  • Roulinia acrotricha (Schiede) Brongn.
  • Dasylirion gracile (Brongn.) Zucc.
  • Barbacenia gracilis (Brongn.) Baker
  • Bonapartea gracilis Sweet [Invalid]
  • Dasylirion graminifolium S.Watson [Illegitimate]
  • Dasylirion robustum Gorl. ex Trel.
  • Roulinia acrotricha (Schiede) Brongn.
  • Roulinia gracilis Brongn.

Description

The foliage is firm narrow bladed leaves up to 40 inches (1.0 m) long, grasslike and 0.4 inches (1.0 cm) across, symmetrically radiating in a rosette, 6 feet (1.8 m) tall by the same in diameter, from a central core that elongates into decumbent trunks. The mid Summer flower spike of small white flowers is 6 to 15 feet (1.8 to 4.6 metres) tall.

Cultivation

The drought-tolerant and dramatic plant is cultivated by nurseries for use in personal gardens and larger xeriscape landscape projects in the Southwestern United States and California. Dasylirion acrotrichum is hardy to 20 °F (−7 °C)

References
  1. The Plant List, Dasylirion acrotrichum
  2. "Dasylirion acrotrichum". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 16 January 2018.


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