Current native
3
exact source areas
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Wiregrass
Aristida stricta
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Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Highly flammable — 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
- 1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Global; NC; North Carolina; North Carolina / southeastern US
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in NC, SC.
- Native range
- Current cited native range in FL, NC, SC.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- Documented minimum 7b; no upper limit is documented.
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
- USDA hardiness
- Minimum 7b; upper limit not documented
- Mature height
- ~3.9 ft
- Water need
- low
- Current cited native range
- FL, NC, SC
- Grows in
- NC, SC
- Rated in
- Global; NC; North Carolina; North Carolina / southeastern US
- Family
- Poaceae
- Evidence
- 6 cited sources
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 introduced
0
exact source areas
Qualified
0
doubtful or extinct source rows
3 native source areas
- Florida (FL)
- North Carolina (NC)
- South Carolina (SC)
Plant hardiness evidence
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USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics
Minimum 7b · no upper limit documented
Where its sources say to plant it
- North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox: aristida-stricta
The evidence
Avoids (3)
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Firewise Landscaping in North Carolina (E05-44596)
“Extreme flammability rating”
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Fire-Resistant Landscaping in North Carolina (AG-874)
“high flammability”
2005 list class was extreme; 2025 revision rates it high.
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North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox — plant profiles and flammability ratings
“high flammability”
NC Toolbox facet capture lists "Aristida stricta" under the high flammability tag.
Listed without a rating (3)
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FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
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“time to flaming (s): 1.5”
FLAMITS record 17484; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site McAllister2014-5; sampling ND. Primary study McAllister2014: McAllister S., & Finney, M. (2014). Convection Ignition of Live Forest Fuels. Fire Safety Science - Proceedings of the eleventh International Symposium 11th conference. Christchurch, New Zealand.
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“calorific value (kcal/kg): 4239.96644”
FLAMITS record 18007; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device flat flame burner; site Safdari2018-1; sampling ND. Primary study Safdari2018: Safdari, M.-S., Rahmati, M., Amini, E., Howarth, J. E., Berryhill, J. P., Dietenberger, M., Fletcher, T. H. (2018). Characterization of pyrolysis products from fast pyrolysis of live and dead vegetation native to the Southern United States. Fuel, 229, 151166.
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“calorific value (kcal/kg): 4622.37604”
FLAMITS record 18021; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device flat flame burner; site Safdari2018-1; sampling ND. Primary study Safdari2018: Safdari, M.-S., Rahmati, M., Amini, E., Howarth, J. E., Berryhill, J. P., Dietenberger, M., Fletcher, T. H. (2018). Characterization of pyrolysis products from fast pyrolysis of live and dead vegetation native to the Southern United States. Fuel, 229, 151166.
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