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The yucca family has 40 species, each with their own unique and desert charm. It has long, sword-like leaves and tall panicles of creamy bell-shaped flowers unite the genus and are common across all species.

So I have shared some of these plant types with you, I hope they will help you.

24 types of Yucca Plant

1. Arkansas Yucca
2. Aloe Yucca
3. Banana Yucca
4. Blue Yucca
5. Beaked Yucca
6. Cape Region Yucca
7. Carrii Yucca
8. Dwarf Yucca
9. Giant White
10. Navajo Yucca
11. Pale leaf
12. Palm Yucca
13. Adam’s Needle
14. Plains Yucca
15. Spanish Dagger
16. Spineless Yucca
17. Twisted Yucca
18. Yucca Whipplei
19. Joshua Yucca
20. Soaptree Yucca
21. Mountain Yucca
22. Faxon Yucca
23. Harriman’s Yucca
24. Blue boy Yucca

If you want to know Yucca plant care.

1. Arkansas Yucca is types of yucca plant

• Hardiness Zones – 6-9

• Mature – 1 to 2 feet

Arkansas Yucca is a plant in the family Asparagaceae and native to Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. It is also called soft-leaf yucca with greenish-white, borne on a flowering. Yucca arkansana thrives in bright, direct sunlight and prefers moderate temperatures.

2. Aloe Yucca is types of yucca plant

• Hardiness Zone -8 to 11

• Mature size – 5 to 20 feet

The Yucca is drought tolerant once established and only requires minimal water. It is the type species for the genus Yucca. Water your plant once a week during the spring and summer growing seasons but ensure it has excellent drainage and dries out between waterings.

3. Banana Yucca is types of yucca plant

• Hardiness Zone – 5 to 10

• Mature size – 2 to 3 feet

It has long, slender, u-shaped leaves with a sharp, rough texture and threads across the margins.This Yucca prefers rocky, sandy soil with good drainage. It can handle partial shade, but takes heat well and full sun.

4. Blue Yucca is types of yucca plant

• Hardiness Zone – 7-10

• Mature size – 8-12 feet tall

The blue yucca is a striking plant known for its architectural shape and sword-like leaves. It is drought-resistant and needs very little supplemental irrigation except during hot, dry summers. This plant likes full sun, reflected heat, and grows best in rocky, desert soils that are well-draining.

5. Beaked Yucca is types of yucca plant

• Hardiness Zone – 5-10

• Mature size – 6-15 feet

Yucca rostrata also called beaked yucca, is a tree-like plant belonging to the genus Yucca. It is a very ornamental, slow-growing, evergreen tree-like yucca forming a perfectly symmetrical pom-pom.

6. Cape Region Yucca is types of yucca plant

• Hardiness zone – 9-11

• Mature size – 15 feet tall

Cape Region Yucca is scientifically known as Yucca capensis. It is an endangered, rare yucca species and native to the cape region of Baja California Sur. It thrive in bright, indirect light, so place them near a window that receives a lot of natural light.

7. Carrii Yucca is types of yucca plant

• Hardiness zone – 4-10

• Mature size – 55-75 cm

Carriu yucca is a new species from the northern Gulf Coastal Prairie of Texas is described. It provide bright, indirect light, water when the top inch of soil is dry, use well-draining soil, and fertilize sparingly during the growing season.

8. Dwarf Yucca

• Hardiness zone – 5 and higer

• Mature size – 2-3 feet

Dwarf Yucca is a compact deer-resistant plant native to the Utah or Colorado border. It is a popular choice for rock gardens and smaller spaces and produces creamy white flowers on a spike. 

9. Giant White

• Hardiness zone – 4 -11

• Mature size – 7-20 feet

Giant white is a tree-like yucca species with stiff, dull green leaves and creamy white, bell-shaped flowers. It prefer full sun and thrive in hot, dry conditions. 

10. Navajo Yucca

• Hardiness zone – 6-10

• Mature size – 3-4 feet tall

Navajo Yucca is growing evergreen shrub. Leaves are very narrow and pointed at tip end. Clusters of cream-colored flowers tinged with purple grow on tall stems. It is  a drought-tolerant succulent and thrives with minimal care, needing well-draining soil, bright light and infrequent watering.

11. Pale leaf

• Hardiness zone – 6-10

• Mature size – 30 inchs tall

Yucca pallida is sometimes called pale yucca and a species of yucca native to Northern Mexico. It requires well-drained soil, as they are susceptible to root rot if their roots are constantly wet.

12. Palm Yucca

• Hardiness zone – 9-12

• Mature size – 15 to 30 feet tall

Palm Yucca feature evergreen rosettes of sword-shaped leaves, some with thread-like filaments. It thrive in bright, indirect light but can tolerate some direct sunlight. 

13. Adam’s Needle

• Hardiness zone – 5-10

• Mature size – 2-3 feet tall

Adam’s needle is a slow-growing broadleaf evergreen succulent often used in Southwest-themed landscapes. It is a very ornamental, broadleaf evergreen shrub featuring a basal rosette of rigid, sword-shaped, spine-tipped, deep green leaves edged with curly filaments.

14. Plains Yucca

• Hardiness zone – 4-9

• Mature size – 3 feet tall

Yucca glauca is a species of perennial evergreen plant. It is a woody-stemmed plant with long and narrow leaves in rosettes at the ends of stems or branches. This plant is drought tolerant and can easily survive dry seasons by spreading its roots deep underground to seek sources of water.

15. Spanish Dagger

• Hardiness zone – 5 to 11

• Mature size – 16 feet tall

Spanish Dagger is a native evergreen yucca, it is fast-growing, tropical-looking yucca grows ten feet tall and eight feet wide and can form single or multiple trunks.Use well-draining soil and add some sand or gravel to improve drainage.

16. Spineless Yucca

• Hardiness zone – 9 – 11

• Mature size – 30 feet tall

The spineless yucca is a versatile evergreen plant that thrives indoors as an indoor plant and outdoors. It can tolerate a small amount of shade but too much will impact the plant’s growth and cause foliage to turn brown or cause growth to be leggy.

17. Twisted Yucca

• Hardiness zone – 8-11

• Mature size – 2-3 feet

Twisted Yucca a small, acaulescent plant with distinctive twisted leaves. It is native to the Edwards Plateau region of Texas and also to northeastern Mexico. This is great to plant in dry, shady spots and shaded rock gardens with white bell-shaped blossoms atop solitary flower spikes.

18. Yucca Whipplei

• Hardiness zone – 8-9

• Mature size – 3 feet

Yucca whipplei is an evergreen shrub forming a dense, trunkless rosette of narrow, linear, gray-blue leaves. It is a striking, drought-adapted plant known for its dramatic presence year-round and spectacular flowering display.

19. Joshua Yucca

• Hardiness zone – 6-8

• Mature size – 15 to 30 feet

The Joshua tree prefers a sunny location with fast-draining soils. It is drought-tolerant but needs additional watering once or twice during the hot season. The plants are available at nurseries and some garden centers but you can also grow them from seeds.

20. Soaptree Yucca

• Hardiness zone – 5 and higher

• Mature size – 6-20 feet

It is a perennial plant with common names that include soaptree. This plant has showy, white, bell-shaped flowers are the state flower of New Mexico.The flowers and emerging flower stalk were consumed but these are not preserved at most archeological sites.

21. Mountain Yucca

• Hardiness Zones – 7 to 10

• Mature size – 11 to 15 feet

Mountain yucca is scientifically known as Yucca × schottii, it is a small, evergreen desert tree native to the oak-pine belt of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range in Mexico. It is drought-tolerant, requiring infrequent watering once established. 

22. Faxon Yucca

• Hardiness Zone – 8-11

• Mature size – 10 to 15 feet

Faxon Yucca is slow growing yucca plant that is upright, attractive trunk and distinctive rosette with sword shaped leaves. It is an outstanding ornamental plant as its large size, thick trunk and symmetrical head of long leaves.

23. Harriman’s Yucca

• Hardiness Zone – 6-7

• Mature size – 1 to 4 feet

Harriman’s Yucca is a small acaulescent species forming clumps of rosettes.It can grow in most soils but prefers a sandy-loam location where the plant will be hardier. The plant can tolerates strong winds but not maritime exposure.

24. Blue boy Yucca

• Hardiness Zone – 7-10

• Mature size – 6 feet

Blue boy Yucca is a nearly stemless, evergreen shrub with soft, arching, sword-like foliage that emerges blue-grey and matures to a smoky purple. It blooms July-August with large clusters of waxy, translucent white, pendulous blooms.