{{Taxobox
| name = Mojave yucca
| image = Yucca schidigera blooming.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Flowering plant, Palm Canyon, California 
| regnum = Plantae
| divisio = Magnoliophyta
| classis = Liliopsida
| ordo = Asparagales
| familia = Agavaceae
| genus = ''Yucca''
| species = '''''Y. schidigera'''''
| binomial = ''Yucca schidigera''
| binomial_authority = Roezl ex Ortgies
}}
The '''Mojave yucca''' (''Yucca schidigera''), also known as the '''Spanish Dagger''', is a flowering plant in the family Agavaceae. It is native to the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert of southeastern California, Baja California, southern Nevada and western Arizona.

The Mojave yucca is a small leaves on top of a conspicuous basal trunk. The bark is gray-brown, being covered with brown dead leaves near the top, becoming irregularly rough and scaly-to-ridged closer to the ground. The leaves are 30-150 cm long and 4-11 cm broad at the base, concavo-convex, thick, very rigid, and yellow-green to blue-green in color. 

The capsule 5-11.5 cm long and 3-4 cm broad in late summer. 

This yucca typically grows on rocky desert slopes and hybrids between the two are sometimes found.

{{CutieTaxonomie
| culoare = lightgreen
| nume = Mojave yucca
| imagine = Yucca schidigera 6.jpg
| imagine_lăţime = 250px
| imagine_text = ''Yucca schidigera''
| regnum = Plantae
| divisio = Magnoliophyta
| classis = Liliopsida
| ordo = Asparagales
| familia = ''Agavaceae''
| genus = Yucca
| species = Yucca schidigera
| binomial = Yucca schidigera| autoritate_binomial = Roezl ex Ortgies
| 
}}

'''Mojave yucca''' ('''Yucca schidigera'''), cunoscută şi ca ''Pumnalul spaniol'', este o specie de Californiei, Nevadei şi vestul Arizonei.
thumb|left|Floare Yucca schidigera
==Utilizare==
Yucca schidigera este folosită în medicina tradiţională pentru ameliorarea efectelor artritelor.
== Vezi şi ==
* Listă de genuri de plante ornamentale

==Legături externe==
*[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242102075 Flora Americii de Nord: ''Yucca schidigera'']
*[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Yucca%20schidigera Jepson Flora Project: ''Yucca schidigera'']
*[http://www.desertusa.com/oct96/du_myucca.html Deşert SUA: Mojave Yucca]
*[http://www.keiriosity.com/agavaceae/yucca_schidigera1.htm Fotografii Y. schidigera floare de Keir Morse]
*[http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/Syllabus2/yschidigera.htm Mojave yucca, cu cateva imagini fruct si frunze]
*[http://www.bennyskaktus.dk/Y_schid.htm Informatii despre Mojave Yucca]
*[http://images.google.ro/images?q=Yucca%20schidigera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi Imagini Yucca schidigera]