Century plant
ரயில் கற்றாழைఅమెరికా కలబందആനക്കൈത
Agave americana L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 2.4 m
- wide
- 2.4 m
Asparagaceae
Also called American century plant, Spreading Century Plant, American Agave, American Aloe
Formerly Aloe americana
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. U.S.A. to MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full; Wikipedia full, part, shade
- Height
- 1.8 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension green, yellow; Wikipedia yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- teometl, Ամերիկյան ագավա, Američka agava
- Portuguese
- Piteira, Агава американская окаймлённая
- Catalan
- Atzavara, Donarda
- Spanish
- Maguey Blanco, Maguey serrano, Mezcal
- French
- Agave d'Amérique, Agave américain
- Chinese
- 龍舌蘭, 金边龙舌兰, 龙舌兰
- Estonian
- ameerika agaav, kollaseääreline ameerika agaav
- Croatian
- Američka agava
- Russian
- Агава американская
- Finnish
- jättiagaave, Jättiagaave
- Czech
- agáve americká
- Lithuanian
- Amerikinė agava
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Agave americana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.