''Yucca sterilis'' is a species in the family

Asparagaceae Asparagaceae (), known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, '' Asparagus officinalis''. This family includes both ...

, native to the

Uintah Basin The Uinta Basin (also known as the Uintah Basin) is a Physiographic regions of the world, physiographic section of the larger Colorado Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division. It is als ...

region in Duchesne and Uintah Counties, Utah. It is closely related to '' Y. harrimaniae'' Trel. ''Yucca sterilis'' is an

acaulescent This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary ...

(trunkless) species spreading by underground

rhizomes In botany and dendrology, a rhizome ( ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow hori ...

. The inflorescence is up to 40 cm tall, with flowers white or sometimes tinged with violet along the edges of the

tepals A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth). The term is used when these parts cannot easily be classified as either sepals or petals. This may be because the parts of the perianth are undifferentiated (i.e. of ve ...

.Neese & Welsh, Great Basin Naturalist 45(4):789-790 (1985)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q16760375 sterilis Plants described in 2008 Flora of Utah Flora without expected TNC conservation status