Palmer's Agave
Agave palmeri
A large gray-green rosette that, after years, sends up a towering flower stalk whose nectar sustains migrating lesser long-nosed bats. The defining agave of the sky-island grasslands.
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–4 ft
- Spacing
- 3–5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- June, July, August
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, hummingbirds, mammals
- Landscape uses
- foundation
- Native states
- AZ, NM
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