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| Desert agave, also known as the Century Plant, blooms in spring in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Desert agave is the only agave species to be found on the rocky slopes and flats bordering the Coachella Valley. It occurs over a wide range of elevations from 500 to over 4,000. It is called century plant in reference to the amount of time it takes it to bloom. This can be anywhere from 5 to 20 years. They send up towering flower stalks that can approach 15 feet in height. Sending up this tremendous display attracts a variety of pollinators including bats, hummingbirds, bees, moths and other insects and nectar-eating birds. Image ID: 11583 Species: Desert agave, Agave deserti | Desert, foothills and washes, west of the Salton Sea on the border of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, aerial view. Image ID: 22137 | Former mercantile store building, long abandoned, in the ghost town of Rhyolite. Rhyolite, on the border of Death Valley, was a gold and mineral mining town from 1904 to 1919, when it was abandoned. Image ID: 20555 Location: Rhyolite, Nevada, USA |
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