Latin name: Agave deserti Engelm.
  Pronunciation: ag-AH-vee dee-SERT-eye

  Common name: Desert agave
  Family: Agavaceae (Agave)
  Habitat: Washes and rocky slopes to 5000', creosote
  bush and shadscale scrub

  Blooming period: May to July
  Click for Latin name derivations:  1) Agave  2) deserti 
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