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Andropogon virginicus

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence: Mixed evidence — 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: 0 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Global
Maintenance: No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: No state distribution is normalized.
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: 1 state noxious-weed seed record; set a location to match exact scope.
Reported invasive here: 1 ecological invasive report; set a location to distinguish exact from regional context.
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
Region: EE. UU.
Rated in: Global
Family: Poaceae
Evidence: 15 cited sources

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.

Listed without a rating (15)

FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

15 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 3902” · score 3902 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3955; Combustibility measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4139” · score 4139 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3956; Combustibility measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4139” · score 4139 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3957; Combustibility measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 3607” · score 3607 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3958; Combustibility measurement; plant part roots; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4169” · score 4169 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3959; Combustibility measurement; plant part roots; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4167” · score 4167 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3960; Combustibility measurement; plant part roots; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 3634” · score 3634 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3961; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4288” · score 4288 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3962; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4288” · score 4288 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3963; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4231” · score 4231 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3964; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4377” · score 4377 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3965; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4373” · score 4373 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3966; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4116” · score 4116 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3967; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4290” · score 4290 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3968; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4290” · score 4290 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 3969; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel all; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Golley1961-1; sampling all seasons. Primary study Golley1961: Golley, F. B. (1961). Energy values of ecological materials. Ecology, 42, 581-584.

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