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Agave shawii is an agave found only along the Pacific coast of Baja California, extending north into the coastal chaparral of southernmost California. For other uses, see Scientific classification (disambiguation). ...
Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Pteridophyta - ferns and horsetails Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants...
It has been suggested that Angiospermae, and Anthophyta be merged into this article or section. ...
Liliopsida is the botanical name for a class. ...
Families according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Agapanthus Agavaceae Alliaceae Amaryllidaceae Aphyllanthaceae Asparagaceae Asphodelaceae Asteliaceae Blandfordiaceae Boryaceae Doryanthaceae Hemerocallidaceae Hyacinthaceae Hypoxidaceae Iridaceae Ixioliriaceae Lanariaceae Laxmanniaceae Orchidaceae Ruscaceae Tecophilaeaceae Themidaceae Xanthorrhoea Xeronema Asparagales is an order of monocots which includes a number of families of non-woody plants. ...
Genera See text Agavaceae is a family of plants that includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Joshua tree. ...
Species see text. ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ...
George Engelmann George Engelmann (also known as Georg Engelmann) was a German-American botanist. ...
Species see text. ...
Baja California (literally lower California in Spanish) is the northernmost state of Mexico. ...
Chaparral is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, USA, that is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
It is a small-to-medium agave, with green ovate leaves 20-50 cm long and 8-20 cm wide, and a variable pattern of marginal teeth. The inflorescence forms a panicle 2-4 meters in height, whose 8-14 lateral umbels are subtended by large purple bracts. Each umbel consists of a mass of yellowish or reddish flowers. An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers on a branch of a plant. ...
White-fruited Rowan (Sorbus glabrescens) corymb; note the branched structures holding the fruits. ...
Umbels on Wild Carrot (Daucus carota) An umbel is an inflorescence which consists of a number of short flower stalks (called pedicels) which are equal in length and spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs. ...
Toothed bracts on Rhinanthus minor In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, from the axil of which a flower or flower stalk arises; or a bract may be any leaf associated with an inflorescence. ...
It generally flowers February to May, and as typical for agaves, the rosette dies thereafter. Although capable of reproducing by suckering, populations vary considerably in their behavior, with some consisting entirely of individual rosettes, while others form groups or colonies of clones.
Subspecies goldmaniana is generally larger, with longer (40-70 cm) lanceolate leaves, and 18-25 umbels on a 3-5 meter stem, and predominates in the desert of the central peninsula. Lanceolate refers to a narrow oval shape that is pointed at both ends. ...
Although occasionally cultivated, this agave is frost tender, with damage starting at -5 degrees C and becoming extensive at -8 degrees.
References
- Raymond M. Turner, Janice E. Bowers, and Tony L. Burgess, Sonoran Desert Plants: an Ecological Atlas (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1995) pp. 63-65
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