While you might be under the impression you need to live in a tropical climate to grow a yucca plant, they actually make for excellent indoor companions. A genus of more than 40 perennial plants, ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.

The soaptree yucca, Yucca elata, is a slow-growing native plant that is well-worth waiting for. It is native to our region and the Chihuahuan desert, as well as northern Mexico. It’s very ...

When hiking in the dry lands of Eastern Montana you are likely to come across a yucca plant. The yucca is green all year. It has sharp, pointed leaves, and in the summer grows a long stalk with a ...

New Mexico is home to a plant that perfectly symbolizes the state's tenacity and natural beauty – the yucca. In fact, the yucca has been the state's flower for decades. As a symbol of adaptation and ...

The desert plant takes 10-15 years to grow to the size most buyers want, leading to an illicit underground plant trade. It’s another dry year in Texas, and as more people adopt xeriscaping, or drought ...