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Nolina excelsa, Oaxaca, MX (c) Carlos Martorell, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2022-07-12

Nolina excelsa García-Mend. & E.Solano

Asparagaceae

No habitat climate 10 photographs Cactus or succulent
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About the genus · Nolina

Nolina is a genus of temperate and tropical xerophytic flowering plants belonging to the family Asparagaceae. The native distribution of the genus includes most of Mexico and the southern regions of the United States north to Nevada and Colorado. Especially in the USA, members of the genus are known as beargrass, some of which are cultivated as ornamental plants.

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

Family
Asparagaceae
Described by
García-Mend. & E.Solano
Native to
Mexico Southwest
Wild records
7 in range· 3 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Nolina, 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: 7 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km.

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.
NativeMexico Southwest
Kew's description“seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker17.851, -97.42 · in the densest population, 7 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 7 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 7 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 7 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Carlos Martorell, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); Carlos Martorell, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (4).

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 Nolina excelsa, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Chemical Composition and Structural Traits of Leaf Biomass in Selected Asparagaceae Species
Nadia Villada-Lozada, Agustina Rosa Andrés-Hernández, Agustín Maceda (2026) · Plants
Nolina excelsa: Fuentes, A.C.D., Martínez Salas, E. & Samain, M.-S.
IUCN (2019) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Nolina excelsa (Nolinaceae) una especie nueva del estado de Oaxaca, México
Abisaí García-Mendoza, Eloy Solano, Miguel Rivera-Lugo (2015) · Botanical Sciences

Other Nolina 34 in the reference

Nolina arenicola Sand sacahuista Nolina atopocarpa Florida Bear-Grass
Nolina azureogladiata Asparagaceae Nolina beldingii Asparagaceae Nolina bigelovii Bigelow bear-grass Nolina brandegeei Asparagaceae Nolina brittoniana Britton's Beargrass Nolina caxcana Asparagaceae Nolina cespitifera Asparagaceae Nolina cismontana Chaparral Nolina Nolina durangensis Asparagaceae Nolina erumpens Foothill Beargrass all 35 ›

History & registers

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Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate nothing to report
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