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Plant Profile

Brazos River Yucca (Yucca necopina)

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Asparagaceae
State: TX
Nature Serve ID: 154241
Lifeform: Subshrub, Shrub, Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection: 02/21/2003

Description:

Essentially stemless shrub forming small colonies with a basal cluster of stiff succulent leaves and a woody stalked inflorescence held above the leaves, 3-9 feet tall. Leaf margins white with curling fibers. Flowers pendant in an unbranched spike or a short branched panicle to 3 1/2 feet long. Flower of six white to greenish white tepals.

Where is Brazos River Yucca (Yucca necopina) located in the wild?

Habitat:

Grasslands on sandy soils and limestone outcrops.

Distribution:

Endemic to north-central Texas in the western Cross Timbers: Hood, Parker, Somervell, and Tarrant counties. Possibly extirpated from Somervell County (NatureServe 2017).

States & Provinces:

Brazos River Yucca can be found in Texas

Which CPC Partners conserve Brazos River Yucca (Yucca necopina)?

Botanical Research Institute of Texas / Fort Worth Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

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Conservation Actions

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

Known only from a few locations in north-central Texas. 1 population may have been destroyed by pasture improvement. Water impoundment may have destroyed others. Rank of G1G2 recommended by Texas Heritage Program, May 2003.

Dave Berkshire, Kim Taylor

01/01/2010

Not Available

Dave Berkshire, Kim Taylor

01/01/2010

Known only from a few locations in north-central Texas. One population may have been destroyed by pasture improvement. Water impoundment may have destroyed others (NatureServe 2017).

Dave Berkshire, Kim Taylor

01/01/2010

Not Available

Dave Berkshire, Kim Taylor

01/01/2010

Not Available

Dave Berkshire, Kim Taylor

01/01/2010

Not Available

Dave Berkshire, Kim Taylor

01/01/2010

Not Available