Desert plants with swordlike leaves

Usage examples of yuccas.

They rode all day the day following through rolling hill country, the low caprock mesas dotted with cedar, the yuccas in white bloom along the eastfacing slopes.

I could make out a number of features: clusters of tumbleweeds, like giant beach balls, creosote bushes, bayonet cactuses, yuccas, and the leggy branches of the palo verde trees.

But they veered to the right, behind one of the yuccas, and he could hear them pushing through some long, dry grass.