| Scientific Name: | Agave americana |
| Common Name: | century plant |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Succulent or Cacti |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Container planting, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Leathery, Succulent, Prickly, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Glaucous, Lanceolate, Dentate, Serrate, Spinose |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Yellow, Green, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Black, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves large, evergreen, in basal rosette, lanceolate to linear, most cvs. grown indoors 60-90 cm long x 10-25cm wide, succulent, greyish-green, many yellow variegated cvs., margin and tip spinose. | |