Parry's Agave
Agave parryi
A compact agave with tight grey rosettes tipped in dark spines, at home in a rock garden, a pot or massed as a bold groundcover. It's very drought tolerant and, kept dry, unusually cold-hardy for an agave. Wet soil rots it, above all in winter. Each rosette dies after flowering, and its offsets take its place.
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- Mature size
- 1.5 × 1.5 ft
- 0.5 × 0.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 6a–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry
Parry's Agave at its mature size
A mature Parry's Agave grows 1 to 3 feet tall and just as wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, San Marcos Growers.
Through the year
What Parry's Agave looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Compact rosette of gray-blue spine-tipped leaves.
Photos
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Growing Parry's Agave
- Grows well in
- The Plains and Mountain West, the desert Southwest, and California.
- Good for
- Specimen, drought tolerant, and slopes
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Arizona, New Mexico, and Northern Mexico
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Parry's Agave, that’s about 1.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Parry's Agave in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other agaves
Parry's Agave
Century PlantAll drawn to the same scale.