Eradicating Yucca from Landscape Without Harming Other Plants

Persistent Yucca Regrowth: The Hard Truth

Yucca roots are tenacious. No selective herbicide kills yucca without risking nearby plants. Roundup (glyphosate) will kill everything it touches.

Only Reliable Method

Relentlessly remove every green shoot before it reaches a few inches tall. This starves the root system. It may take a year or more. Every root fragment can resprout.

Alternative

Temporarily remove other plants, apply Roundup to yucca regrowth, wait a year, then replant. But this is extreme.

Persistence is the only non-chemical solution.