Yucca constricta Lynn Lowrey a candidate for espalier against

a candidate for espalier against a warm wall

ground-hugging shrub with short green or gray needle-like leaves and small purple flowers

and almost no trouble

the old Provençal word for the European serviceberry

Yucca constricta Lynn Lowrey a candidate for espalier againstA fine textured native yucca from the Texas hill country. Yucca constricta, the Buckley yucca, forms a stemless or short stemmed rosette, single or clustered, of many very narrow, blue green, spine tipped leaves edged with curling white marginal filaments. The species honors the nineteenth century naturalist Samuel Botsford Buckley, and the epithet constricta notes the narrowed leaves that give the plant a softer, more delicate look than the bolder