Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This spiky plant can thrive as a houseplant or part of your garden. Grumpy Cow Studios/Getty Images Yucca plants are exciting ...

Thanks to an unexpectedly wet winter, it’s not hard this spring to spot chaparral yucca blooming on hillsides and ridgelines throughout Southern California. The plant is known as “our Lord’s candle” ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.