Yucca constricta Lynn Lowrey ground-hugging shrub with short green

ground-hugging shrub with short green or gray needle-like leaves and small purple flowers

a candidate for espalier against a warm wall

In colder regions the tea olive earns a place under glass

this native shrub has long kept company with the settler's dooryard and the woodland wanderer's path alike

butterflies

Yucca constricta Lynn Lowrey ground-hugging shrub with short greenA fine textured native yucca from the Texas hill country. Yucca constricta, the Buckley yucca, forms a stemless or short stemmed rosette, single or clustered, of many very narrow, blue green, spine tipped leaves edged with curling white marginal filaments. The species honors the nineteenth century naturalist Samuel Botsford Buckley, and the epithet constricta notes the narrowed leaves that give the plant a softer, more delicate look than the bolder