Green Saw Palmetto

This plant has multiple, clumping trunks that have a showy, scale-like pattern. These trunks may be seen to droop or grow along the ground, forming odd curves as the plant grows.The leaves are broad and fan-shaped, with pointed leaflets and spines along the edges. Most of the time the leaves are green, but they may be bluish or silvery. Flowers appear on three-foot-long stalks, and are small and yellow-white. The berries turn from yellow to black.