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hairy white oldfield aster (Aster pilosus)
Photo: (c) Douglas Goldman, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (CC BY-SA), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

hairy white oldfield aster

Aster pilosus (accepted: Symphyotrichum pilosum) · Asteraceae · all Aster records · also called White heath aster · Wikipedia

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Form
perennial
Rated in
NC; North Carolina
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
NC; North Carolina
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
  • Fire-Resistant Landscaping in North Carolina (AG-874) · Official scoped edition
    • NC; complete normalized coverage · 2025-03-26

      The complete three-table AG-874 plant list is explicitly for North Carolina and contains 202 low-, medium-, or high-flammability rows. FireApproved accounts for all source rows under its strict taxonomy and lineage rules; source scope does not establish local suitability at a particular North Carolina site.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV.
Native range
The legacy compatibility field lists NC in native range; its field-level source was not retained.

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.

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.

Mid-scale / conditional (2)

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Physostegia virginiana
Same genus in the directory · the Aster group page

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

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Aster pilosus (White heath aster). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/aster-pilosus/. Last verified 2026-08-23.