Plant Details

Accepted name:: Yucca glauca Nutt. [Asparagaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
amole	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
bear-grass	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
beargrass	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
blaugrüne palmlilie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
great plains yucca	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
narrowleaf yucca	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
plains yucca	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
small soapweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
soapweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
soapweed yucca	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
soapwell	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
spanish bayonet	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
yucca	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Whole plant		Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 12 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Yucca angustifolia Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 227 (1813).
Yucca angustifolia f. genuina Engelm. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 3: 50 (1873), not validly publ.
Yucca angustifolia f. stricta (Sims) Voss Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 1057 (1895).
Yucca angustifolia var. stricta (Sims) Baker J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 227 (1880).
Yucca glauca subsp. albertana Hochstätter Piante Grasse 20: 2 (2000).
Yucca glauca var. gurneyi McKelvey Yuccas Southw. U.S. 2: 169 (1947).
Yucca glauca f. rosea (D.M.Andrews) Rehder Bibliogr. Cult. Trees: 644 (1949).
Yucca glauca rosea D.M.Andrews Nursery Cat. (Rockmount Nursery) 1937: 15 (1937).
Yucca glauca var. stricta (Sims) Trel. Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 13: 61 (1902).
Yucca glauca subsp. stricta (Sims) Hochstätter Cactaceae Rev. 1(2): 21 (1999).
Yucca stenophylla Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 795 (1841).
Yucca stricta Sims Bot. Mag. 48: t. 2222 (1821).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Yucca glauca	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Yucca glauca Nutt.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Yucca glauca Nutt. var. glauca	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

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