Agave neomexicana
New Mexico Agave, Mescal
Description
A smaller species around 1 1/2' tall x 2' wide with many offsets. Leaves slender & blue green to gray. Flower spikes can be around 10'. Native SE New Mexico into W Texas on rocky limestone slopes 1400-7000' and is quite ornamental. Part sun & drainage. Will need some additional moisture in heat of summer. Very cold hardy. To distinguish it from parryi, it will have narrower leaves. Suckers freely to form large clumps of flat top rosettes. Spring spikes are reddish then yellow.