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Your search found 5 taxa in the family Agavaceae, Agave family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
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Common Name:
Spanish Dagger, Aloe Yucca
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) 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
Look for it on dunes
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mound-lily Yucca, Spanish Bayonet
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) 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
Look for it on dunes, shell middens, also regularly cultivated and often persistent or weakly escaped around old homesites inland
Uncommon in GA & SC, rare elsewhere, endemic to Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Beargrass, Spoonleaf Yucca, Curlyleaf Yucca, Adam's Needle
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Yucca filamentosa FAMILY: Agavaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN 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
Look for it in woodlands, forests, dunes, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Weakleaf Yucca, Adam's Needle
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Yucca flaccida FAMILY: Agavaceae
(?) 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
Look for it in thin soils around rock outcrops, woodlands, roadsides, disturbed areas
Uncommon (rare north of GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Agave, Eastern False Aloe, Rattlesnake-master, American Aloe
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) 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
Look for it on 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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