Dasylirion

Dasylirion is a group of over a dozen of grassy looking rosette plants native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico. They are not grasses but are related to the Agaves. As they grow older, the base of the several of these species develop into a trunk.

When the plant is mature it blooms with hundreds of greenish-white bell-shaped flowers on a tall narrow spike coming from the center of the plant. The plant does not die after blooming

Most Dasylirions are rather resistant to cold and drought.

Species and varieties
Dasylirion acrotriche (Green Desert Spoon) synonym of Dasylirion acrotrichum
Dasylirion acrotrichum (Green Desert Spoon)
Dasylirion bigelovii (Beargrass) synonym of Nolina bigelovii
Dasylirion gracile (Green Desert Spoon) synonym of Dasylirion acrotrichum
Dasylirion longissimum (Mexican Grass Tree, Toothless Sotol)
Dasylirion quadrangulatum (Mexican Grass Tree, Toothless Sotol) synonym of Dasylirion longissimum
Dasylirion texanum (Green Sotol, Texas Sotol)
Dasylirion wheeleri (Sotol, Desert Spoon)

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