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Agave verdensis, Arizona, US (c) brettaugust, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2020-02-17

Agave verdensis W.C.Hodgs. & Salywon

Verde Valley Agave

No habitat climate 2 photographs Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Agave verdensis, or the Sacred Mountain agave, is a perennial plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae.

Text from Wikipedia, “Agave verdensis”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Agave

Agave is a genus of monocots native to the arid regions of the Americas. The genus is primarily known for its succulent and xerophytic species that typically form large rosettes of strong, fleshy leaves.

Text from Wikipedia, “Agave”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Asparagaceae
Described by
W.C.Hodgs. & Salywon
Native to
Arizona
Wild records
15 in range· 1 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Agave, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeArizona
Kew's description“succulent perennial” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker34.601, -111.604 · in the densest population, 15 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 15 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 14 km away. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 14 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 15 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Agave verdensis

Photographs: brettaugust, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF.

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Agave verdensis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Two new Agave species (Agavaceae) from central Arizona and their putative pre-Columbian domesticated origins
Wendy C. Hodgson, Andrew M. Salywon (2013) · Brittonia
Pre-contact Agave domesticates – living legacy plants in Arizona’s landscape
Wendy C. Hodgson, E. Rosenthal, Andrew M. Salywon (2023) · Annals of Botany
Pre-Columbian Rock Mulching as a Strategy for Modern Agave Cultivation in Arid Marginal Lands
Hector G Ortiz-Cano, José Antonio Hernández-Herrera, Neil C. Hansen, Steven L. Petersen (2020) · Frontiers in Agronomy
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.Org User (2021) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Other Agave 252 in the reference

Agave abisaii Asparagaceae Agave acicularis Asparagaceae Agave acklinicola Acklin Island Agave Agave acuispina Asparagaceae Agave aktites Asparagaceae Agave albescens Guantanamo Bay Agave Agave albomarginata Asparagaceae Agave albopilosa Asparagaceae Agave americana American agave Agave amica Asparagaceae Agave andreae Asparagaceae Agave angustiarum Asparagaceae all 253 ›

History & registers

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