Scientific name:
Agave toumeyana
Common name:
Toumey's agave
Range:
Central Arizona
Form:
Extensive clusters of small individual rosettes
Habitat:
Rock or gravel areas in chaparral and pinyon-juniper woodland, to 5,500 feet elevation
Flowers:
Yellow, spicate arrangement; along the upper third of the 5 to 9 foot stalk
Toumey's agave readily forms extensive clusters, the thin curving leaves of each individual plant merging into a large clump many feet across. The upwards-pointing leaves are green or yellowish green in color, becoming brownish when old or during dry periods; they have long, white, curling hairs along the edges, but usually lack edge teeth. The toumeyana variety has 40 to 70 leaves per rosette, each between 8 and 18 inches in length, and nearly one inch across, while the less common bella variety has a greater number (100 to 200) of smaller leaves (4 to 8 inches long, half an inch across).
The plant grows in the mountains of central Arizona, north, east and west of Phoenix.
The plant grows in the mountains of central Arizona, north, east and west of Phoenix.
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