slgwv's photos with the keyword: Chloride

A wash scoured by recent flooding from the monsoon rains. Chloride, Arizona, USA. Geology in action!

Chloride, Arizona. We always called this ground-hugging variety, with the slightly bluish cast, "Spanish dagger" when I was a kid, but evidently that's so broadly applied as to be useless. (Wikipedia claims that "Spanish dagger" is applied only to a variety in the southeastern US, but other sources indicate that's wrong. Misinformation in Wikipedia--perish the thought! ;) Anyway, this is probably Y. harrimaniae , based on its location. It's probably not blue yucca ( Y. rigida ), despite the color, because it has no stem. Yuccas belong to the same family as agave, but bloom more than once.