Agave americanaL.

American century plant

WFO wfo-0000754119 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Agave americana, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. a Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204869146
Agave americana, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. b Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204869533
Agave americana, photographed by Elizabete Marchante
fig. c Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199388485
Agave americana, photographed by Lisa Bennett
fig. d Lisa Bennett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194521471
Agave americana, photographed by Michal Honskus
fig. e Michal Honskus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196768602
Agave americana, photographed by Niko Ioannidis
fig. f Niko Ioannidis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202625794
Agave americana, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. g Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193219689
Agave americana, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. h Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197461857

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Flowering n = 467 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 467 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 38 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Agave abrupta Trel.
  • Agave altissima Zumagl.
  • Agave americana f. picta (Salm-Dyck) Voss
  • Agave americana f. virginica Voss
  • Agave americana var. americana
  • Agave americana var. marginata Trel.
  • Agave americana var. medio-picta (Hovey) Trel.
  • Agave americana var. picta (Salm-Dyck) A.Terracc.
  • Agave americana var. striata (Hovey) Trel.
  • Agave americana var. subtilis (Trel.) Valenz.-Zap. & Nabhan
  • Agave americana var. theometel (Zuccagni) A.Terracc.
  • Agave americana var. variegata Hook.
  • Agave beaulueriana Jacobi
  • Agave communis Gaterau
  • Agave complicata Trel. ex Ochot.
  • Agave cordillerensis Lodé & Pino
  • Agave expansa Jacobi
  • Agave felina Trel.
  • Agave franzosini (Sprenger) P.Sewell
  • Agave franzosinii (Sprenger) P.Sewell
  • Agave fuerstenbergii Jacobi
  • Agave gracilispina (Rol.-Goss.) Engelm. ex Trel.
  • Agave ingens A.Berger
  • Agave melliflua Trel.

and 14 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.