SucculentsDesert Spoon
Dasylirion wheeleri
Desert Spoon is a slow-growing succulent, hardy in USDA zones 8a-11, that matures to about 5 ft × 5 ft. It does best in full sun with low water needs in well-drained and dry soil. Expect white blooms in spring and summer.
- USDA zones
- 8a-11
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Low
- Mature size
- 5 ft × 5 ft
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- Well-drained, Dry
- Bloom color
- White
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer
- Native to
- Southern Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and northern Mexico
Freeze survival
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