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New Mexico State Flower Yucca flower Yucca glauca The yucca was adopted as the State Flower on March 14, 1927. The yucca is a member of the lily family and a symbol of sturdiness as well as beauty. In the early summer, pale ivory flowers bloom at the tips of its long, fibrous stalks. At the base of the plant are broad, sharpedged leaves that look like stilettos. The yucca sometimes grows to.. The New Mexico Federation of Women's Clubs supported their choice and the New Mexico State Legislature adopted the yucca as the official State Flower on March 14, 1927.

New Mexico symbols include the greater roadrunner, yucca flower, piñon pine, red Zia flag, and Land of Enchantment nickname.. The yucca flower is New Mexico's official state flower, adopted on March 14, 1927. Creamy white bell-shaped blooms erupt on stalks up to 6 feet tall from spiky desert rosettes across New Mexico's landscape each May through July. Native peoples of the Southwest used every part of the yucca for thousands of years — fiber from the leaves for rope and sandals, roots for soap and shampoo, flowers.