bear grass

Noun

• plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers

• stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico

• yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers

• yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  squaw grass , Xerophyllum tenax , Nolina microcarpa , Yucca glauca , Yucca smalliana