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wild chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
Photo: (c) Morten Ross, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

wild chives

Allium schoenoprasum · Amaryllidaceae · all Allium records · also called Chives · Wikipedia

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Allium schoenoprasum has native and introduced occurrence separated under range evidence. The cited split keeps both distribution roles visible for chives. The two roles are not collapsed into a general range statement.

One ecological invasive report accompanies two hardiness assertions. The climate claims retain their individual sources under hardiness evidence, apart from the ecological report. The report remains separate from both climate sources.

Green is the selected fire condition. Its context remains explicit under test conditions, so the scene does not extend the record to cured, dead, or irrigated material for chives.

Form
perennial
Rated in
Michigan / Great Lakes; Nevada / Great Basin; OR/WA/ID; Oregon +1
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
Placement evidence
2 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
Michigan / Great Lakes; Nevada / Great Basin; OR/WA/ID; Oregon; Pacific Northwest (Oregon / Washington / Idaho)
Typed publication scope: 3 scopes across 3 cited fire sources
  • Wildfire-resistant Landscape Plants for Michigan (Extension Bulletin E2948) · Official scoped edition
    • MI; partial normalized coverage · 2007-01-01

      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.

  • Fire-Resistant Plants for Home Landscapes (PNW 590) · Official scoped edition
    • ID, OR, WA; partial normalized coverage · 2023-10-01

      The October 2023 joint Pacific Northwest Extension publication explicitly names Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and publishes more than 150 plant profiles. FireApproved has normalized 155 exact plant records from the source; publication scope does not assert that every listed plant suits every site within the three states.

  • A Compilation of Good Plant Choices for Nevada's High Fire Hazard Areas (SP-05-16) · Official scoped edition
    • NV; partial normalized coverage · 2005-01-01

      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.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in AK, CO, CT, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY.
Native range
Current cited native range in AK, CO, CT, ID, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, VT, WA, WI, WY.
Introduced / established
3 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
2 applicable cited hardiness statements overlap but have different boundaries; compare each complete source row.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

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.

Current native

20

exact source areas

Current introduced

2

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

20 native source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Alaska (AK)
  • Colorado (CO)
  • Connecticut (CT)
  • Idaho (ID)
  • Massachusetts (MA)
  • Maine (ME)
  • Michigan (MI)
  • Minnesota (MN)
  • Montana (MT)
  • New Hampshire (NH)
  • New Jersey (NJ)
  • New York (NY)
  • Ohio (OH)
  • Oregon (OR)
  • Pennsylvania (PA)
  • Rhode I. (RI)
  • Vermont (VT)
  • Washington (WA)
  • Wisconsin (WI)
  • Wyoming (WY)
2 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Illinois (IL)
  • Maryland (MD)

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.

Conditions in the fire evidence

These describe tested or rated plant material. They are not horticultural maintenance instructions.

Where its sources say to plant it

Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating. They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.

The evidence

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.

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Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)
Same genus in the directory · the Allium group page

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Allium schoenoprasum (Chives). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/allium-schoenoprasum/. Last verified 2026-08-23.