Yucca flaccida Haw., common names Adam's needle, weak-leaf yucca, or needle palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to south-central and southeastern North America from the lower Great Plains eastward to the Atlantic seaboard in Virginia, south through Florida and the Gulf states. Growing to 55 cm (22 in) tall by 150 cm (59 in) broad, it is a stemless evergreen shrub with a basal rosette of sharply pointed, swordlike leaves up to