Spanish Dagger

Specimen plant. Forms a large rosette of spine-tipped leaves. Flower stalks rise to 6-8 ft.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



High. Can tolerate significant and ongoing amounts of salty wind and salt spray without injury.

Spine-tipped leave are very sharp.

Provides wildlife cover

Cultivated. Dry sites.

• Showy flowers, Interesting foliage
• Pollinated by moths though hummingbirds may be attracted to the nectar.  Larval host plant for cofaqui giant skipper (Megathymus cofaqui) and yucca giant skipper (Megathymus yuccae) butterflies.  
• Nectar plant for great southern white (Ascia monuste) and other butterflies.
• Pollinated by yucca moths.