# Yucca pallida
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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Speciesbox
|status = LC
|status_system = IUCN3.1
|status_ref = [{{cite iucn |author=Clary, K. |author2=Hodgson, W. |author3=Salywon, A. |author4=Puente, R. |date=2020 |title=''Yucca pallida'' |volume=2020 |article-number=e.T117428365A117470142 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T117428365A117470142.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}]
|name=Pale yucca
|taxon = Yucca pallida
|image = Yucca pallida.jpg
|authority = McKelvey[
|synonyms =
*''Yucca pallida'' var. ''edentata'' ([Trel](/source/William_Trelease).) Cory
*''Yucca rupicola'' var. ''edentata'' [Trel](/source/William_Trelease).
|synonyms_ref = ][{{Cite web |title=''Yucca pallida''|work=[World Checklist of Selected Plant Families](/source/World_Checklist_of_Selected_Plant_Families) |publisher=[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew) |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=291659 |access-date=2014-01-19}}]
}}
'''''Yucca pallida''''', sometimes called '''pale yucca''', is a species of [yucca](/source/yucca) native to Northern Mexico and parts of the [blackland prairie](/source/Blackland_Prairie)s of northern and central [Texas](/source/Texas), and notable for its light-colored [leaves](/source/Leaf) that range from a pale blue-gray to sage-green in color.[McKelvey, Susan Delano. 1947. Yuccas of the Southwestern United States 2: 57–63, map 2, pl. 13–14.]
The rosettes average 20–50 cm tall and 30–80 cm in diameter, with leaves 15–40 cm long and 2–3 cm wide, being widest around the midpoint. The rosettes sit directly on the ground, with little or no trunk. The leaves have a yellow to brown terminal spine, and are generally flat, possibly with some waviness or rolling along the edges. The [inflorescence](/source/inflorescence) is a [panicle](/source/panicle), 1–2.5 m tall, with up to 100 bell-shaped [flower](/source/flower)s, each 5–7 cm long, with color ranging from light green to cream.