Scientific: Yucca pallida
Common: curve leaf yucca, pendulous yucca
Family: Agavaceae
Origin: Texas, endemic (native only) to North Central Texas and may extend into the Edwards Plateau, growing on rocky soil and outcrops of the Blackland Prairies and the Grand Prairie.

Hardiness zones
Sunset 7-10, 12-24
USDA 7-11

Landscape Use: Accent, border, focal point, xeric landscape plantings, container plant.

Form & Character: Evergreen perennial, Spanish architecture, pale, spherical, reserved, peaceful, less obtrusive than other yuccas.

Growth Habit: Slow, acaulescent (stemless), and basal to 2' in height with equal spread (6' in height with flower stalks), some basal offsetting with age.

Foliage/texture: 2' to 3' strongly glaucous, strap-like leaves that hang or droop, flexible, sometime revolute; coarse texture.

Flowers & fruits: 3 to 5' flower stalk bearing pale green flowers with white centers in clusters; fruit a capsule.

Seasonal color: White in May in Phoenix, June elsewhere.

Temperature: Tolerant, hardy to 0oF.

Light: Full sun to partial shade. can be grown in ample shade but flowering will be inhibited.

Soil: Like other yuccas, pale yucca must have a well drained soil to grow well.

Watering: Requires little supplemental water and NO irrgations during winter.

Pruning: Remove the flower stalks after bloom.

Propagation: Seed, division of basal clump.

Disease and pests: Spider mites, root and crown rot if over watered.

Additional comments: Hybridizes with Yucca rupicola.