Hardiness zones
Sunset 12-24
USDA 8 - 11

Landscape Use: Interesting still and small bold accent plant for small and intermediate size desert gardens and xeric landscape design themes. It can be used as a container plant.

Form & Character: Evergreen perennial, succulent, rosette like, stiff with coarse, sharp leaf tips

Growth Habit: Because of selection, cultivated forms are smaller than many found growing in native habitats. These cultivated forms grow only to 2' in diameter with equal height. Usually produces few basal offshoots, monocarpic (individual rosettes die after flowering in late spring and summer)

Foliage/texture: Stiff relatively broad succulent grey blue leaves tapering to a stiff sharp point. Leaves often recurrent or cupped. Leaf margins bluntly arrayed with dark brown spiny teethed serrations; coarse texture

Flowers & fruits: Produces many yellow flowers on a  thick10' panicle stock.

Seasonal color: None except when flowering

Temperature: Hardy in Phoenix to brief exposures to as low as 17^oF

Light: Full sun

Soil: Sandy, some loam, well-drained best

Watering: Some supplemental water only occasionally during the summer. Supplemental water increases growth rate.

Pruning: None required

Propagation: Division of basal offshoots

Disease and pests: Agave weevil (Scyphophorus acupunctatus) can attack variously most agave species in the low desert.

Additional comments: This is a very handsome small, extremely tough agave for difficult planting locations.  Because of cold hardiness, it can also be grown in colder desert cities of  El Paso and Las Vegas.