Enter your ZIP to see whether this is legal to plant in your state, and whether it survives your winter.
Yes, fernleaf yarrow is rated fire resistant, with extension guidance from Nevada, Utah, Montana, and Michigan pointing the same way.
Four extension sources support that conclusion. Utah State University identifies it as a firewise plant when properly used and maintained, while Montana State lists it among fire-resistant species adapted to Montana. Michigan State considers it wildfire resistant and suitable for Michigan’s climate. The University of Nevada’s compilation also includes it because it appeared in at least two named western source lists, specifically those from Utah and Montana.
This agreement spans the Great Basin, Intermountain West, Northern Rockies, and Great Lakes. These are expert-curated or compiled landscape lists, not laboratory measurements of ignition or heat release, so they support a practical planting classification rather than a promise that the plant cannot burn. Fernleaf yarrow is a perennial in the Asteraceae family, suited to USDA zones 3a through 8b. The strongest plain-language conclusion is that extension specialists consistently treat it as a fire-resistant or firewise choice, provided the Utah guidance on proper use and maintenance is followed.
Form
perennial
Rated in
Michigan / Great Lakes; Montana / Northern Rockies; Nevada / Great Basin; Utah / Intermountain West
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Michigan / Great Lakes; Montana / Northern Rockies; Nevada / Great Basin; Utah / Intermountain West
Maintenance
Typed publication scope: 4 scopes across 4 cited fire sources
Michigan State University Extension Bulletin E2948 is explicitly a list of wildfire-resistant landscape plants for Michigan and includes a Michigan-native field. FireApproved publishes 221 exact GBIF owners from 226 represented source rows and holds 15 complex or non-exact rows. This dated publication scope is not a current site-suitability determination.
The April 2022 MontGuide explicitly presents fire-resistant species adapted to Montana. FireApproved publishes 92 exact plant records from the source while retaining excluded genus, family, and unresolved rows; the guide itself says not every listed species grows in every part of the state.
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension compiled plants suited to Nevada climate zones and reported favorably by at least two upstream firewise lists. FireApproved publishes 126 exact source owners at Nevada publication scope. The source explicitly makes no independent flammability determination, so these rows remain corroborative.
Utah State University Extension states that this fact sheet selects examples for Utah landscapes and that they require proper placement and maintenance. FireApproved publishes 83 exact source owners at Utah publication scope. The table is not a site-specific planting clearance.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in CA, MI, NY, UT, VT.
Native range
Introduced / established
6 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Documented range 3–8.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
2 ecological invasive reports.
Broader regional context
Federal context
How to read this page
The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.
Native and introduced range evidence
These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and
introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval.
Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.
The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.
Plant hardiness evidence
These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA
Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value
is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping
statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.
Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself
(a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or
republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.
