Yucca jaegeriana

Eastern joshua tree

Family: Agavaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Eastern joshua tree is a California native shrub found in desert flats and slopes in desert bioregions at elevations of 700 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces cream to greenish-white flowers in narrow bell-shaped clusters with recurved tips. Growing 3 to 6 meters tall with an erect trunk that branches irregularly less than 1 meter above the base, it forms distinctive rosettes at branch tips. Its dark green leaves are 10 to 21 centimeters long with a white expanded base 2 to 3 centimeters wide, featuring minute yellow-edged margins. The plant produces spreading to erect capsules 5 to 10 centimeters long that are initially spongy or leathery.

Habitat: Desert flats, slopes

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: 700-1800 m

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.