Plant: perennial scapose herb; Rosettes 15-75 cm high, 25-85 cm broad, compact, flat-topped or globose Leaves: numerous, closely imbricate, 10-65 cm long, 4.5-20 cm wide, lanceolate to broadly ovate, widest just below middle, short-acuminate to truncate, rigid, thick, nearly flat to concave towards apex, rounded below, little constricted above base, glaucous gray to light green, the margins nearly straight to repand or undulate; teeth small, the largest above mid-blade 3-8 mm long, mostly 1-2(-3) cm apart, mostly straight to reflexed, dark brown to grayish; interstitial teeth absent; terminal spine 15-30 mm long, openly grooved, dark brown aging to gray, decurrent to the first or second teeth Inflorescence: with scape 4-6 m tall, congested, of 20-36 lateral, slightly ascending branchlets on upper ½ of flowering stalk, the stalk thick, glaucous-green to gray Flowers: pink to red in bud, in congested clusters, 43-81 mm long, with little to no fragrance; tepals subequal, 13-27 mm long, 2-7 mm wide, linear, ascending to erect, soon involute and wilting, greenish yellow to deep yellow; filaments (35-)40-58(-65) mm long, inserted 4-11 mm above base of tube, yellow, the anthers 12-34 mm long, yellow; ovary 20-48 mm long, usually with a neck (2-)6-9 mm long, slightly angled longitudinally or rounded, green, the style 52-70 mm long when stigma is receptive; floral tube 6-12 mm long, 11-21 mm wide, deep green Fruit: capsules 3.5-5 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, oblong to obovate, stout-pedicellate, short-stipitate, beaked; SEEDS 7-8 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, black Misc: Open slopes of grassland, chaparral, pine-oak woodlands REFERENCES: Hodgson, Wendy. 1999. Agavaceae. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 32(1).