Re: our lords candle

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• To: m*@ucdavis.edu
• Subject: Re: our lords candle
• From: R* C* <r*@ix.netcom.com>
• Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 15:49:05 -0800
• References: <msg202819.thr-457846.f7aeb@monterey.edu>

Barry - re your sightings of "Our lords candle" at Big Sur

I also noticed a few years ago at Big Sur all over the dry
mountain sides as you describe grey green stiff clumps of grass
with "spectacular" flowers but it was Pampas Grass, not a Yucca.
Could you have been seeing Cortaderia jubata (or less likely, C. 
selloana), both listed as invasive weeds by the California
Exotic Pest Plant Council.   They are natives of Argentina.  
Living in the Tamaulipan plain of South Texas, Yuccas we have
and it is no yucca. Yucki maybe.  Also a very big problem in
Australia, this plant.  Some people claim C. selloana won't escape
but there are claims it is self-seeding in Northern Cal.  
Check out www.nps.gov/redw/pampas.htm for pic and info.

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