How to Grow and Care for Desert Spoon - The Spruce
2024年1月3日 · Native to the Chihuahuan desert in North America, the desert spoon plant is an evergreen shrub closely related to the agave. The plants feature serrated blue to grayish-green leaves that are long and slender, with frizzy ends and reddish-brown margins.
Dasylirion wheeleri - Wikipedia
Dasylirion wheeleri (desert spoon, spoon flower, sotol, or common sotol) is a species of flowering plant in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae), native to arid environments of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
Dasylirion Wheeleri Care: How To Grow Desert Spoon
2023年7月18日 · Desert spoon, common sotol, or the sotol plant are all common plant names for Dasylirion wheeleri. This long-lived native of the Chiahuahuan Desert of northern Mexico has been naturalized as far north as southern Arizona, western Texas, and New Mexico.
Desert Spoon, Desert Sotol, Wheeler Sotol, Grey Sotol - Texas …
Desert spoon has a dense rosette of graceful, attractive blue-green leaves and a short, woody trunk. It grows in limestone or granite hillsides in the Trans-Pecos and adjacent Mexico, north to New Mexico and Arizona.
Dasylirion wheeleri (Desert Spoon) - Gardenia
Dasylirion wheeleri (Desert Spoon) is a very ornamental evergreen succulent boasting a perfectly symmetrical rosette packed with hundreds of long, narrow, silvery blue-green leaves tipped with white fibers.
WILDFLOWERS OF NEW MEXICO - npsnm.org
Called “desert spoon” because the leaf base is spoon-shaped. FLOWER: May–July. A rapidly growing bloom stalk emerges from the middle of the dense rosette of spiny leaves and reaches up to 15 feet tall in about 3 weeks.
Sotol Plant Information: Tips For Growing Dasylirion Plants
2021年2月23日 · Dasylirion wheeleri - The classic desert spoon with long bluish-green foliage. Dasylirion acrotriche - Green leaves, slightly more delicate than D. texanum. Dasylirion quadrangulatum - Also known as Mexican grass tree. Stiffer, less arching green leaves. Smooth edges on foliage.
Desert spoon - Waterwise Garden Planner
This is the most popular species of desert spoon for planting in Inland Empire gardens. Its distinctive gray foliage color makes it a popular foliage plant in southwestern and Mediterranean style gardens. It is grown in containers, on banks, around walks and …
Dasylirion wheeleri (Desert Spoon) - World of Succulents
Dasylirion wheeleri is a robust, long-lived succulent with strap-shaped, whitish or bluish-green leaves that radiate from the center of an often reclining trunk, forming a spherical rosette. The trunk can grow up to 6 feet (1.8 m) long.
desert spoon | UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden
2018年7月25日 · Evergreen desert plant with long, narrow, blue-gray leaves; cream-colored flowers emerge in summer on tall spikes; drought tolerant and makes a striking accent plant; attracts beneficial insects.