| Scientific Name: | Agave schidigera |
| Common Name: | thread-leaf agave |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Indoor plant, Small garden/space |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Leathery, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Green-yellow, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal rosette, lanceolate-linear, most 7-25cm long x 2-4cm wide, margin entire with curled white threads, apex aristate. | |