Plant in full sun to light to moderate shade (where it tends not to bloom) in a well-drained soil. It is drought tolerant and hardy to USDA Zone 7 (<-10 ° F). The broad leaves arranged in spherical heads makes this plant good to contrast other fine textured plants in the garden or for use in a container planting. While the leaf tip is sharp, the leaves are not rigid, so the plant is one of the safer yuccas for the garden. It however has never seemed very vigorous in our cool climate.

Yucca pallida is an endemic to North Central Texas where is usually grows on rocky soil. Our plants are from Mountain States Nursery. The name Yucca was given to the genus by Linnaeus, perhaps by mistake, as it is the Latinized derivation of "yuca", the Caribbean name for Cassava (Manihot esculenta) an unrelated plant in the Euphorbia family that is native to the Caribbean area. Interestingly it was also Linnaeus who applied the name Manihot to Yuca. The specific epithet means "pale" or "pallid" in reference to the light gray-green color of the foliage. We grew this plant from 2006 until 2008. It is one parent of Tony Avent's Yucca 'Silver Anniversary' that Plant Delights Nursery introduced in to commemorate their 25th anniversary in business and this hybrid seems to grow better for us in coastal California. 

The information displayed on this page about Yucca pallida is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.