Taxon: Agave americana L. subsp. americana

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See also subordinate taxa:

• Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana (no accessions)
• Agave americana subsp. americana var. expansa (no accessions)
• Agave americana subsp. americana var. picta (no accessions)

See other conspecific taxa:

• Agave americana (1 accessions)
• Agave americana subsp. protamericana (no accessions)

Common names:

• American agave   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
  
• century-plant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
  
• spreading century-plant   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Agave americana subsp. americana var. expansa]
  
• agave d'Amérique   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
  
• pite   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
  
• amerikanische Agave   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
  
• maguey   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
  
• pita común   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas [s.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona [s.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Jalisco, Queretaro, Veracruz

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gentry, H. S. 1982. Agaves of continental North America. 278–287.

Synonyms:

• Agave expansa Jacobi [≡ Agave americana subsp. americana var. expansa]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Agave picta Salm-Dyck [≡ Agave americana subsp. americana var. picta]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Agave americana L. subsp. americana:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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