Origin and Habitat: Mexico (East side of Central Lower Califonia) Altitude from sea level to up to 1050 m. It has a wide range along the southern gulf coast broadly distributed in the Sierra de la Giganta and reaching Carmen and Danzante.
Type locality: Mesas about Comondu.
Habitat: It is most frequently found in dry, rocky, north-facing slopes. Plants from more exposed positions are typically small and often damaged.

• Agave sobria Brandegee

• Agave sobria Brandegee
• Agave affinis Trel.
• Agave carminis Trel.
• Agave sleviniana I.M.Johnst.

• Agave sobria subs. roseana (Trel.) Gentry
• Agave roseana Trel.
• Agave sobria var. roseana (Trel.) I.M.Johnst.

Description: It is a small to medium stemless Agave that occasionally from a short stem.
Rosettes: Open, few-leaved, compact 1 to 1.8 m in diameter.
Leaves: Broad, openly spreading to ascending, linear, lanceolate to oblanceolate in shape with thick and fleshy bases, smooth, pale glancous-grey, bluish or yellowih-green, 20 to 80 cm long 6-10 cm wide, often attractively cross-banded and sometimes twisted.
Theet: Heavy, flexible, long and spaced 3-4 cm apart, chestnut, later grey, rather dull and glaucous.
Inflorescence: Formed by 2-20 nearly globose, compact short lateral umbels on a slender stalk 2.5-4 m tall.
Flowers: Pale yellow.
Blooming season: March through November.
Remarks: Leaves from northern populations of A. sobria are similar in size (30-60 cm long) to Agave capensisSN|361]]SN|351]]. The island forms Agave cerulataSN|351]]SN|361]] var. dentiens and Agave sobria ssp. roseana differ from peninsular counterparts in similar ways, with long. narrow, and thin leaves in a more open rosette, and with marginal teeth reduced or absent.