RHH's photos with the keyword: spanish dagger

I believe these are Big Bend Yucca, Yucca rostrata, photographed at Ocotillo Grove in Big Bend National Park. We spent the night at Ocotillo Grove before going on the next morning to kayak on the Rio Grande at Santa Elena Canyon.

A big Bend Yucca plant photographed at Ocotillo Grove in Big Bend National Park.

These are, I believe the seed pods and old flower spike of Big Bend Yucca, photographed at Ocotillo Grove in Big Bend.

This was the sunset the night we camped at Ocotillo Grove on the southwest corner of Big Bend National Park. The sunset was a bit disappointing and this was the best photo I was able to get. We were camped at this location because we intended to go kayaking on the Rio Grande the next morning, though camping describes our situation only very broadly. We sleep in the back of our van when traveling using our backpacking sleeping bags and mats.

Camped at Octotillo Grove on the southwest side of Big Bend National Park we wandered the area at sunset before getting to bed for the night. These Yucca plants, I believe they are the Spanish Dagger Yucca, were near our camp.

Photographed near our campsite the third night of our visit to Big Bend National Park, these Yucca and Ocotillo were the some of the main plants in the area.

I believe this is Yucca treculean or Spanish Dagger. It was photographed near our campsite in Big Bend National Park.

The third night of our visit to Big Bend National Park we camped at Ocotillo Grove near the Rio Grande. These Yucca were photographed there.

From the Homer Wilson Ranch in Big bend National Park we hiked up a nearby wash toward Ward Mountain. The flowering plant in the foreground is Spanish Dagger or Torrey Yucca.

If I've identified this Yucca correctly, then these are the flowers of the Torrey Yucca or Spanish Dagger, a plant that was just starting to bloom in Big Bend National Park when we there in February. The insets show the same plant and flowers.

This photo of Yucca flowers, the Torrey Yucca if I am not mistaken, were taken in Big Bend National Park near the Homer Wilson Ranch, a former sheep ranch along the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive.

Photographed near the Homer Wilson Ranch in Big Bend National Park, these are the flowers, or so I believe, of the Spanish Dagger or Torrey Yucca.

Driving back into Big Bend National Park the second full day of our stay there, we stopped along the Old Maverick Road to photograph these Yucca which were just starting to bloom.

These are, if I've identified them correctly, the flowers of the Torrey Yucca of Spanish Dagger, photographed along the Old Maverick Road in Big Bend National Park.