Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 19 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | ALA | NORTHERN AMERICA |
| Arkansas | ARK | |
| Florida | FLA | |
| Georgia | GEO | |
| Illinois | ILL | |
| Indiana | INI | |
| Kentucky | KTY | |
| Louisiana | LOU | |
| Mexico Northeast | MXE | |
| Mississippi | MSI | |
| Missouri | MSO | |
| North Carolina | NCA | |
| Ohio | OHI | |
| Oklahoma | OKL | |
| South Carolina | SCA | |
| Tennessee | TEN | |
| Texas | TEX | |
| Virginia | VRG | |
| West Virginia | WVA |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Flowering 80 in flower of 208 examined
Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Agave virginica observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 80 of 208 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.
Also published as 23 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 alibertii Baker
- Agave conduplicata Jacobi & C.D.Bouché
- Agave lata Shinners
- Agave pallida Salisb.
- Agave tigrina (Engelm.) Cory
- Agave virginica Baker
- Agave virginica f. tigrina (Engelm.) E.J.Palmer & Steyerm.
- Agave virginica subsp. lata (Shinners) Thiede & Eggli
- Agave virginica var. conduplicata (Jacobi & C.D.Bouché) A.Terracc.
- Agave virginica var. polyanthus Engelm.
- Agave virginica var. tigrina Engelm.
- Allibertia intermedia Marion ex Baker
- Aloe caroliniana Hill
- Aloe virginica (L.) Crantz
- Manfreda alibertii (Baker) Rose
- Manfreda conduplicata (Jacobi & C.D.Bouché) Rose
- Manfreda tigrina (Engelm.) Small
- Manfreda virginica (L.) Salisb. ex Rose
- Manfreda virginica subsp. lata (Shinners) O'Kennon, Diggs & Lipscomb
- Manfreda virginica var. tigrina (Engelm.) Rose
- Polianthes lata (Shinners) Shinners
- Polianthes virginica (L.) Shinners
- Polianthes virginica f. tigrina (Engelm.) Shinners
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol MAVI5. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.