Hardiness zones
Sunset 12-24
USDA 9 - 11

Landscape Use: Strong accent or focal point for large desert gardens and xeric landscape design themes.

Form & Character: Evergreen perennial, imposing and large; produces copious numbers of basal offshoots

Growth Habit: moderate to 6' in height, rosette habit with multiple basal offshoots, monocarpic (individual rosettes die after flowering)

Foliage/texture: Large, succulent gray green leaves, sometimes curved or reflexed with a finely serrate margin. Leaves taper to a sharp point, very coarse texture

Flowers & fruits: Produces a striking 20' tall branched scape with multiple clusters of yellow flowers after which the flowering plant dies, occasionally produces bulbils instead of flowers

Seasonal color: None except when flowering

Temperature: Subject to freeze injury if temperatures fall much below 25^oF

Light: Full sun, though some protection of intense western sun is best

Soil: Sandy, some loam, well-drained best

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

Pruning: Some may consider tip pruning spiny leaf apexes

Propagation: Division of basal offshoots

Disease and pests: Agave weevil (Scyphophorus acupunctatus) will attack several agave species including the Weber agave in the low desert of Arizona.

Additional comments: This is a very handsome large agave for large desert gardens. A good substitute for the more dangerous A. americana. Avoid planting in small spaces as Weber's agave will quickly become too large.