Aloe maculata
This fast, low-growing aloe produces short, stem-less rosettes and many offshoots that grow in low clumps. This plant will grow rapidly to twelve inches or more, producing many offsets over its lifetime. It has thick, su…
Agave americana ‘Cornelius’
The agave cornelius is a low growing, colorful plant. It has thick, wavy blue green and yellow variegated foliage with wide leaves. This spectacular plant has sharp black teeth along its leaves and a sharp tip. It will g…
Agave parryi v. truncata
Artichoke agave resembles an artichoke, as its common name implies. This slow-growing, clumping agave is native to southern Chihuahua and northern Durango in Mexico. It has short blue-gray leaves and grows two to three f…
Yucca baccata
This yucca was named for its edible, banana-shaped fruit that was a historic food source for Native Americans. The plant grows slowly to three to five feet tall and wide with large, strap-like, dark-green foliage that is…
Yucca rostrata
The spectacular bloomer grows ten to fifteen feet tall, forming an attractive, thatched trunk and branching towards the top of the plant as it matures. It has narrow, slightly waxy, greenish-blue leaves with a thin, yell…
Nolina microcarpa
The evergreen accent plant is a great choice for desert and transitional gardens, forming a bold, grassy clump to about five feet tall and seven feet wide. The ends of its leathery, coarse, green leaves will fray to form…
Agave macroacantha
This small agave forms clumps of short, tight rosettes growing one to two feet tall and two to four feet wide. It has a short stem and forms offsets at the base of the plant. Its foliage is bluish-gray to powdery blue. T…
Aloe ‘Blue Elf’
This tight-clumping, dwarf aloe offers a dense rosette and grows to eighteen inches tall and two feet wide. It is mainly stem-less with narrow, silvery-bluish-gray leaves that grow upright. There are small, sharp teeth a…
Agave ‘Blue Glow’
Blue Glow is a hybrid that produces a glow-like appearance in bright sunlight. It grows two feet tall and wide, forming a single rosette with a clumping growth habit. This agave is a cross between Agave ocahui and Agave…
Agave colorata
This agave is admired for its striking, broad, powder blue leaves with distinct impressions and spiny brown teeth along the margins. The plant grows in a tight rosette to heights of two to four feet tall and wide. After…
Nolina nelsonii
The stunning, architectural beauty resembles the yucca species, developing a ten- to twelve-foot trunk and large rosette of foliage. It is one of the larger plants found in the Nolina genus. As the plant matures, it may…
Yucca rigida
This yucca is a valued plant for desert gardens because of its stiff, flat, powdery blue leaves. It is a tall plant that grows moderately to twelve feet with an eight-foot spread. As the plant matures, the trunk may deve…
Fouquieria columnaris
The distinguished, rare, and slow-growing tree has an unusual growth habit and appearance with its tall and upright stature. It grows to fifty feet tall and ten to fifteen feet wide. This desert accent plant produces no…
Agave potatorum
The short-growing plant forms an interesting symmetrical rosette and well-defined leaves reaching one to two feet tall and two feet wide. It is usually stem-less and solitary in its growth habit. Butterfly agave has smal…
Aloe arborescens
This decorative aloe is armed with many sharp, dense teeth along its margins. It is an upright plant with dark green foliage growing four to six feet tall with an equal spread. This aloe can be kept as a low rambler or t…
Aloe ferox
This common tree-type aloe is an impressive desert accent plant noted for its medicinal qualities and reaches heights of ten feet or more, with a three- to four-foot spread. It forms a dense clump of bluish-green, fleshy…
Agave angustifolia var. marginata
This agave forms a dense rosette of sword-shaped, greenish-blue foliage reaching three to five feet tall and six feet wide. It has been cultivated for hundreds of years, and was used for fiber and as a food crop. In the…
Agave americana
The Century Plant is the granddaddy of all agaves. It grows slowly to about 6 feet tall by 8-10 feet wide. The wide, grey-green leaves have stiff terminal spines and curved teeth along the margins. After about ten years,…
Agave guiengola
This medium-sized plant is an attractive ornamental that forms rosettes of broad, blue-gray leaves that are thick and succulent looking. It grows three to four feet tall and four to six feet wide. Its foliage is wide at…
Agave shawii
The plant has attractive, fleshy, dark-green, leaves with sharp, serrated, brown teeth along its edges and a dark reddish-brown terminal spine. It forms a tight rosette and grows three feet tall and four to five feet wid…
Aloe striata
The plant has attractive, broad, bluish-green, smooth leaves and coral red blossoms. It grows two to three feet tall and two feet wide. Unlike other aloes with serrated leaves or a spine, it has a smooth, pink margin. Th…
Agave bovicornuta
The plant grows three feet tall and four to six feet wide, and is recognized by its satin-like, darker green to yellowish-green foliage that forms a rosette. Brownish-red teeth run along the edges of the leaves. The youn…
Aloe dawei
This evergreen jewel has clumping, upright clusters of elongated succulent stems and green, fleshy leaves with dark serrated teeth along the edges. It grows two to three feet tall and eighteen inches to three feet wide f…
Agave deserti
This clumping plant was an important food source for Native Americans, and grows two feet tall and four to six feet wide. It forms numerous rosettes of grayish-blue to green, thick, sword-like leaves. Fibers from the lea…
Dasylirion wheeleri
This long-lived accent plant grows slowly to form a dense rosette of silver-blue foliage, to 4 feet tall and wide. Desert Spoon develops a stout, short trunk with leathery leaves that have teeth along the margins. The sp…
Agave isthmensis
This miniature, compact plant grows one foot tall and wide. It has powder blue leaves with prominent dark red teeth and a red, terminal spine. The leaves are narrow at the base and wider at the tips. At maturity, it deve…
Yucca brevifolia subsp. jaegeriana
This dramatic evergreen has a smaller, stouter trunk than Yucca brevifolia, growing six to twelve feet tall with a denser, more compact branching pattern. It produces multiple stems that start branching two to three feet…
Agave decipiens
The false sisal is a dramatic plant that grows five feet tall and wide. It will get much larger to about ten feet in frost-free locations. This agave is known for its bright green, long foliage that forms a tight, symmet…
Yucca faxoniana
This slow-growing yucca reaches fifteen feet tall with a ten-foot spread to form an upright, attractive trunk and distinctive rosette with sword-shaped leaves. It can sometimes branch out, forming two heads. Branched hea…
Aloe marlothii
The large, impressive, single-stem aloe grows to ten feet or more. The plant has a broad base and tapers as it grows upward. Older foliage forms a dry skirt around the plant. Its new foliage is broad, heavy, and grayish-…
Agave attenuata
This graceful accent plant has light, bluish-green, smooth, pliable foliage that forms a rosette of growth to five feet tall and wide. It has arching leaves and does not produce spines. The variety ‘Nova’ is smaller with…
Hesperaloe funifera
This excellent, slow-growing evergreen has an erect, bold, striking growth habit. It produces stiff, narrow green leaves that form a massive clump of upright growth and reaches six feet tall and wide. Its leaf margins ha…
Aloe x nobilis
The low-growing, clumping aloe reaches about one foot tall and wide with many clustering offsets. It has thick, succulent, short, green leaves that grow in rosettes with large, yellow, toothed edges along the margins of…
Agave phillipsiana
This bluish-green to deep green agave grows to three feet high and wide with serrated teeth along its edges and looks similar to Agave americana. It sometimes produces offsets for reproduction. This agave develops a ten-…
Dasylirion acrotrichum
Green spoon is an excellent accent plant that blends well with many other desert shrubs and ground covers. It can be used in all zones of a landscape, looking right at home in the mini-oasis as well as the dry zone. This…
Aloe tomentosa
This aloe gets its name from its unique greenish-white flowers that are covered in thick wool. Its species name, tomentosa, means dense wool. The plant forms a large, solitary rosette to two feet tall and about four feet…
Agave havardiana
The striking plant has silvery blue to bluish-gray, spiny, wide foliage, tapering to a tip. The teeth are larger towards the upper end of the leaf and are smaller towards the lower end. It grows to two to three feet tall…
Yucca brevifolia
This magnificent, slow-growing plant is the largest of all the yucca species, reaching thirty feet or more in height with a fifteen-foot spread. The species is an important wildlife plant in its natural environment. Nati…
Agave salmiana
This magnificent agave has huge, graceful, greenish-gray, curving leaves with a large leaf base. It grows five to six feet tall and spreads to ten feet. The leaves are ten to fifteen inches long with thick, sharp, browni…
Aloe vera
This is probably the most common aloe grown in the southwest desert, and reaches eighteen inches to two feet tall and six feet wide. It has clumping, thick, fleshy leaves and produces many offsets over a period of time.…
Agave pelona
This beautiful and rare species forms a dense rosette of narrow, toothless, glossy green leaves with a white margin and prominent red spine. It grows four to six feet tall and wide and does not produce offsets. The mesca…
Fouquieria macdougalii
The interesting and rare, semi-evergreen is admired for its intertwined, spiny green branches. It grows upright and slowly to twenty feet tall and about four feet wide, but most specimens reach only six to eight feet tal…
Agave neomexicana
This showy, low-growing agave grows two feet tall and two to three feet wide, forming a tight rosette. Its powdery blue leaves are broad with black or burgundy colored, heavily armed spines along the side of its foliage…
Agave ocahui
This agave, which was used for its strong fibers, grows two to three feet tall and three feet wide. It has a dense rosette of dark green, narrow, yucca-like leaves. Its foliage is stiff and flat at the top with straight,…
Fouquieria splendens
This tall, graceful deciduous shrub with long canes grows slowly to twenty feet tall with a fifteen-foot spread. It has spiny, sharp, pole-like stems and light to dark green, oval, two-inch leaflets. The ocotillo grows u…
Agave vilmoriniana
Octopus agave is a medium to large accent plant, growing to 4 feet high by 6 feet wide. The leaves are medium green, long and narrow, and deeply channeled. The leaves undulate and twist, showing why this plant is called…
Yucca filifera
The dramatic, fast-growing landscape specimen with a massive base towers to heights of fifteen to twenty feet. It has sharp, pointed, short, rigid leaves that are dark to olive green with filaments growing along the marg…
Agave palmeri
The plant is recognized by its banana-like fruit and dramatic flower stalks that reach ten to fifteen feet, producing a panicle of blooms in green and pale pink. It grows to four feet tall and four to five feet wide, for…
Agave parryi
Native to Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico, Parry’s agave produces larger leaves and rosettes than many of its sub-species. It consists of compact, nearly round rosettes of gray-green leaves that grow 7-20 inches…
Aloe variegata
This dwarf aloe with spotted white and green leaves resembles the breast of a partridge, as its common name implies. It grows in a clump and stays low to the ground, usually below one foot tall. It is one of the most dis…
Yucca recurvifolia
This single-stem or sometimes multiple-stem plant grows to six feet and is recognized by bluish-green, pendulous leaves that have a sharp point at the tip. There are also beautiful, variegated forms available. In late sp…
Beaucarnea recurvata
Ponytail palm is a grass-like evergreen with a large, bulbous base, long, swollen trunk, and palm-like features. It grows to heights of thirty feet or more and twelve feet wide. With age, the trunk may develop a few bran…
Agave victoriae-reginae
This rare, striking agave, named for Queen Victoria in England, forms a small, symmetrical, rosette of dark green foliage with white markings on the side of its toothless leaves. A sharp spine is apparent on the end of e…
Agave stricta
The Mexican native agave grows two to three feet tall and wide, creating a spherical rosette of elongated, dark greenish-yellow, lightly serrated, and lightly curved leaves. The pencil-like leaves are thicker at the base…
Manfreda maculosa
The dramatic succulent grows to eighteen inches tall and one to two feet wide to form a tight, clumping rosette of fleshy, sword-shaped, smooth-textured leaves. The foliage is green and mottled with purplish-red, irregul…
Hesperaloe parviflora
The medium-sized, evergreen produces stiff, dense clumps of leathery, gray-green leaves that when blooming, grow three feet high and wide in a tight rosette. Its upright growth habit has arching foliage that forms a dens…
Agave multifilifera
The striking agave grows in a single, dense rosette reaching three feet tall with a four to five foot spread. It has a short, terminal spine and numerous, medium-green leaves with many fibers growing along the leaf margi…
Agave nickelsiae x scabra ‘Sharkskin’
This elegant fast-grower is named for its uniformly spaced, leathery leaves that have the texture of shark skin. It is an admired agave growing from two to three feet tall and three to four feet wide. The sharkskin agave…
Aloe brevifolia
The low-growing, clumping aloe is stem-less and grows eighteen inches tall and nine to twelve inches wide. It forms small, tight rosettes of deep, blue-green, triangular, fleshy leaves with white spots and white teeth al…
Agave desmettiana
This upright plant forms a beautiful, symmetrical rosette shape with slightly arching leaves and grows three feet tall and wide. It has light, bluish-green foliage with smooth edges and a sharp spine at its tip. Sometime…
Yucca elata
This historic yucca grows six to twenty feet tall or more with an erect, upright trunk and spreads eight feet wide. Its showy, white, bell-shaped flowers are the state flower of New Mexico. The plant was named for the su…
Aloe lineata
This compact, tropical, medium-sized aloe grows two to six feet tall and two to three feet wide, forming many clusters as it matures. It produces small rosettes of yellowish, dark green to lime green, smooth foliage with…
Yucca aloifolia
Spanish Bayonet is a large, sprawling yucca. In Southern Arizona, it reaches an average height of about 10 feet tall and clumps to about 10 feet wide. Growth is slow. Stiff, dense leaves are medium green with sharp point…
Yucca gloriosa
The fast-growing, tropical-looking yucca grows ten feet tall and eight feet wide and can form single or multiple trunks. It has sword-like foliage that originates from the center of the plant. The leaves are bluish-green…
Agave bracteosa
This low-growing agave with an irregular appearance reaches heights of about two feet tall and wide. It has an interesting clumping rosette of spineless, bright-green, candelabra-like leaves. The foliage emerges from the…
Agave americana var. striata
This is one of the rarest and most beautiful of all the agaves. It foliage is blue-gray with creamy white markings and multiple, white stripes that run throughout the length of the leaves. The plant grows six to eight fe…
Aloe dorotheae
This low-growing aloe with stiff, shiny leaves grows two to three feet tall and twenty inches wide, producing many offsets. It forms a clump of rosettes or spirals on very short stems that stay low to the ground. Its lea…
Yucca thompsoniana
This amazing, slow-growing plant resembles Yucca rostrata but is somewhat smaller, reaching six to twelve feet tall and six feet wide. It has symmetrical, columnar rosettes of stiff, thin leaves and its foliage is greeni…
Agave lophantha
This agave produces single or clumping rosettes reaching two feet high and four feet wide. It is admired for its numerous, dark rich-green to pale green, glossy leaves that have a whitish-yellow strip that runs along the…
Agave filifera subsp. schidigera
This agave is admired for its decorative, dark-green to bronzy-green, sword-like, narrow foliage. The plant grows quickly to two feet tall and two to three feet wide. The foliage has white markings and fibers along the e…
Dasylirion quadrangulatum
This mounding grass-like shrub grows six to nine feet tall with an equal spread. It produces long, flat, narrow, leathery, green leaves that emerge from the center basal portion of this symmetrical growing plant. It does…
Yucca torreyi
This picturesque plant, which is one of the most common yuccas found in western Texas, reaches eighteen to twenty feet tall at maturity, eventually producing multiple trunks. It forms a symmetrical rosette with stiff; bl…
Nolina matapensis
This lush-looking, tree-like specimen grows from nine to fifteen feet tall and about six feet wide. It produces a trunk with a large head of unarmed, three- to four-foot long, flat, strap-like, glossy green leaves that h…
Agave geminiflora
This agave has dense, symmetrical foliage that grows in a rosette producing about a hundred or more erect, narrow, dark green leaves. The slender foliage grows to two to three feet tall with sharp edges and smooth margin…
Aloe vanbalenii
This low-growing aloe forms many tight, dense rosettes reaching two feet tall and three to four feet wide. It develops many offsets with long, twisting, coppery-brown foliage in sunny exposed areas, and greener when grow…
Agave americana var. marginata
The plant forms a large rosette of twisted silvery-green leaves and strips of bright yellow along its leaf margins, giving it the appearance of a striped ribbon. Its sword-like leaves stand upright to about four to six f…
Agave murpheyi ‘Variegata’
This dramatic, versatile, slow grower reaches three feet tall and two to three feet wide with light gray to bluish-green foliage that has yellow stripes along the margins. It also has sharp, serrated, brownish-gray teeth…
Agave weberi
This bold agave grows moderately to five to six feet tall with an equal spread, offering grayish-green to shiny, bluish-green, long, fleshy leaves and a sharp spine. The foliage is five to seven inches wide, with fine te…
Agave ovatifolia
The striking agave is admired for its light blue to powdery, whitish-blue and slightly cupped foliage. It grows three to five feet tall and three to six feet wide, forming a dense rosette of short, wide distinctive leave…
Agave americana var. medio-picta f. alba
This striking agave with its creamy, whitish-yellow, central leaf color and bluish-gray margins grows three to four feet tall. It has short, thick leaves that arch downward to a sharp tip. The leaves have indentations al…
Agave zebra
The relatively fast-growing, medium-sized plant reaches three to four feet in height and width and offers interesting bands of pale, grayish-blue, whorled leaves. The bands are more significant in full sun than in the sh…
