McKelvey's Agave

Also known as McKelvey's Century Plant

McKelvey's agave forms compact, solitary rosettes of pale green to yellowish, spine-edged leaves hugging rocky canyon slopes. It spends decades accumulating energy in arid mountain terrain before producing a single towering flowering stalk laden with clustered yellow blooms. Like other monocarpic century plants, the rosette dies after this singular reproductive effort, leaving behind a dry spire and seeds to disperse on desert winds.