Texas Sacahuista

Description

Texas bear-grass is a 1 1/2-2 1/2 ft.-perennial-with large, woody, basal stems growing in a clump. Leaves-evergreen,-firm textured, long, thin, up to 4 feet long by 3/16 inch wide, forming a thick clump. Flowers small, white to cream, in dense vertical clusters 10 inches or more long by 2 inches or more wide at the tops of rather short stems, appearing in spring and early summer.-Fruit-distinctly 3-lobed, a thin-walled-capsule-3/16 to 1/4 inch wide. Flowers barely protrude above the foliage.