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Bluebunch Wheatgrass
Agropyron spicatum
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- No test or rating condition is normalized.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 3 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Great Basin / Intermountain West; Lake Tahoe Basin, Nevada and California; southern Idaho / Intermountain
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 2 scopes across 2 cited fire sources
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MI, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- No hardiness value is normalized.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
- Legal-list status
- Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
- Seed-list status
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- Reported invasive here
- No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
- Broader regional context
- Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
- Federal context
- Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.
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.
- Form
- grass
- Grows in
- AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MI, MT, ND +9
- Rated in
- Great Basin / Intermountain West; Lake Tahoe Basin, Nevada and California; southern Idaho / Intermountain
- Family
- Poaceae
- Evidence
- 3 cited sources
Where its sources say to plant it
- Fire Resistance of Plants Master Database: plantable at 70' from home
- Forage Kochia Helps Fight Range Fires: species used in a semiarid western rangeland greenstrip
- Home Landscaping Guide for Lake Tahoe and Vicinity: Fire Hazard column: low
The evidence
Recommends (2)
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Forage Kochia Helps Fight Range Fires
“Species frequently used in greenstrips.”
Table 1 row: bluebunch wheatgrass — Pseudoroegneria spicata (Purch) A. Love. The article says these are species frequently used in greenstrips; it does not report a separate burn result for this row.
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Home Landscaping Guide for Lake Tahoe and Vicinity (Ed. Bulletin 06-01)
“low — Wheatgrass, bluebunch — Pseudoroegneria spicata”
Table 1's Fire Hazard column prints “low” for this taxon. The guide calls the rating a rough estimate of potential flammability, not a result of scientific trials. Its footnote says plants that turn brown often become high fire hazards and tells readers to mow grasses and forbs when they begin to turn brown.
Mid-scale / conditional (1)
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Fire Resistance of Plants Master Database
“fire-resistance score 4 of 10”