About:
Alligator lizards find shelter in this plant. Learn more about Mescal Agave.
Agave parryi
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. The map is based on the average annual minimum winter temperature, divided into 10-degree F zones.
7a (0 °F to 5 °F)
7b (5 °F to 10 °F)
8a (10 °F to 15 °F)
8b (15 °F to 20 °F)
9a (20 °F to 25 °F)
9b (25 °F to 30 °F)
10a (30 °F to 35 °F)
10b (35 °F to 40 °F)
Endangered Status
- Extinct in Wild (EW)
- Critically Endangered (CR)
- Endangered (EN)
- Vulnerable (VU)
- Near Threatened (NT)
- Least Concern (LC)
- Not Evaluated (NE)
A most useful plant
Agave (uh-gah-vay) is a plant that can provide fiber, food, drink, soap, weapons or medicine. These plants may have helped the western Apache to thrive in the Sonora region.
Fun Facts:
- May take 20 years before it blooms for the first and only time.
- An impressive, branched, bloom stalk of about 20 feet tall will produce hundreds of bright yellow flowers.
- After blooming the plant dies but offsets that have formed along the base of the flowering plant will live on.
- Alligators lizards find shelter and protection from predators under the leaves or at the base of this plant.
