Bitterroot Restoration

Order: Asparagales
Family: Asphodelaceae

Aloe is a genus containing about four hundred species of flowering succulent plants. The genus is native to Africa. Aloe is a beautiful houseplant. It is grown everywhere. Most Aloe species have a rosette of large, thick, fleshy leaves. Their leaves are often lance-shaped with a sharp apex and a spiny margin. It flowers are tubular, frequently yellow, pink or red and are borne on densely clustered, simple or branched leafless stems. Many species of Aloe appear to be stemless, with the rosette growing directly at ground level; other varieties may have a branched or unbranched stem from which the fleshy leaves spring. They vary in colour from grey to bright-green and are sometimes striped or mottled.