The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to AGAVE

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Inflorescence ± raceme-like; bracts on peduncle 0; n&e Desert Mountains
 A. utahensis
  1' Inflorescence a panicle; bracts on peduncle obvious; more widespread
 
    2. Leaf lanceolate, gray; bracts on peduncle scarious; s Desert Mountains, Sonoran Desert
 A. deserti
    2' Leaf ovate, dark green; bracts on peduncle large, fleshy; s South Coast
 A. shawii

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