Scientific Family
Agavaceae
Other common names
Sacahuista
basketgrass
nolina
Plant type
Succulents
Plant Description
Origin
Native
Has numerous, rigid, grass-like leaves growing from large, woody basal stems.
Height
3 to 6 feet
Width
To 8 feet
Habitat
Plant Community
Pinyon Juniper Woodlands
Interior Chaparral
Grasslands
Low elevation
3000
High elevation
6500
Flowers
Flower color
White
Flower shape
Other
Tubular
No
First bloom month
May
Last bloom month
June
Flower clusters
Elongated
Creamy white, 1/8 inch wide, in dense plumelike, often bending or crooked, flowering cluster to 3 feet long.
Leaves
Leaf color
Green
Leaf type
Other
Leaf shape
Other
Leaf margin
Other
Leaf hairs
None
Leaf Drop
Evergreen
Tough, grasslike with no marginal spines. Loose fibers on margins at tips. Leaves are 4 feet long, 1/2 inch wide in large, basal
rosette.
Spines
No
Fruit
Fruit color
White
Fruit type
Capsule
Seeds in papery fruit capsule to 3/8 inch in diameter.