agave and allies
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae (), known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, Asparagus officinalis. This family includes both common garden plants as well as common houseplants. The garden plants include asparagus, yucca, bluebell, lily of the valley, agave‚ and hosta, and the houseplants include snake plant, corn cane, spider plant, and plumosus fern.
The Asparagaceae is a morphologically heterogenous family with the included species varying widely in their appearance and growth form. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, with genera and species contained in the family native to all continents except Antarctica.
7 branches of this family, most-observed first
Dragon tree subfamily
subfamilyNolinoideae
Century plant subfamily
subfamilyAgavoideae
Hyacinth subfamily
subfamilyScilloideae
Asparagus subfamily
subfamilyAsparagoideae
Brodiaea subfamily
subfamilyBrodiaeoideae
cabbage tree subfamily
subfamilyLomandroideae
Aphyllanthes subfamily
subfamilyAphyllanthoideae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47599.