''Yucca neomexicana'' Wooton & Standl. Wooton & Standley, Contributions of the U. S. National Herbarium 16: 115 (1913) is a plant in the family

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, native to New Mexico, Colorado and

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. Common name is "New Mexican Spanish bayonet." It is similar to '' Y. harrimaniae''

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but with a longer flowering stalk and white (rather than yellowish) flowers.Hochstätter, Fritz. 1999. Cactaceae Rev. 1(2): 21, ''Yucca harrimaniae'' subsp. ''neomexicana''

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