Slimfoot Century Plant
This Chihuahua Desert native agave is about to go into flower! Not a large agave, the slimfoot century plant ranges in size from one to three feet in width, but it's flowering stalk can reach an impressive 15 feet by the time the flowers are ready to be pollinated!!
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- ©2015
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- 4000x6000 / 18.8MB
- Keywords
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A. gracilipes, Agavaceae, agave, Agave gracilipes, Agavoideae, Angiosperms, arid, Asparagaceae, Asparagales, botany, cacti, century plant, Chihuahuan Desert, common, Culberson County, desert, flora, forb, green, Guadalupe Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, heat, herb, hurt, maguey de pastiza, monocot, Monocots, national park, nature, pain, painful, perennial, plant, Plantae, poke, prickle, prickly, sharp, shrub, slimfoot century plant, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, subshrub, succulent, Texas, thorn, thorny, west, western, wild
- Contained in galleries
- Asparagaceae (Agaves and Yuccas)
