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Avena sativa

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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: Documented in AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
Native range: No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
Introduced / established: 51 sourced range or established records; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness: Only uncertain or inapplicable hardiness rows are cited; no primary zone is projected.

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: 3 ecological invasive reports; 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
USDA hardiness: Only uncertain or inapplicable source rows; no primary zone projected
Mature height: ~2 ft
Water need: moderate
Grows in: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC +43
Rated in: Global
Family: Poaceae
Evidence: 7 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 native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

51

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

51 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04

Alaska (AK)
Alabama (AL)
Arkansas (AR)
Arizona (AZ)
California (CA)
Colorado (CO)
Connecticut (CT)
District of Columbia (DC)
Florida (FL)
Georgia (GA)
Hawaii (HI)
Iowa (IA)
Idaho (ID)
Illinois (IL)
Indiana (IN)
Kansas (KS)
Kentucky (KY)
Louisiana (LA)
Massachusetts (MA)
Maryland (MD)
Maine (ME)
Michigan (MI)
Minnesota (MN)
Missouri (MO)
Mississippi (MS)
Montana (MT)
North Carolina (NC)
North Dakota (ND)
Nebraska (NE)
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ)
New Mexico (NM)
Nevada (NV)
New York (NY)
Ohio (OH)
Oklahoma (OK)
Oregon (OR)
Pennsylvania (PA)
Puerto Rico (PR)
Rhode I. (RI)
South Carolina (SC)
South Dakota (SD)
Tennessee (TN)
Texas (TX)
Utah (UT)
Virginia (VA)
Vermont (VT)
Washington (WA)
Wisconsin (WI)
West Virginia (WV)
Wyoming (WY)

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.

USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics · record AVSA · PLANTS Help Document 2022; characteristics cache retrieved 2026-08-23 · as of 2026-08-26

Minimum 4b · no upper limit documented · half zone precision · derived containing band

Exact source measurement: -23°F; mapped only to its containing half-zone.

Source taxon: Avena sativa · source identifier match.

Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 20609, Temperature, Minimum (°F).

Not used for comparison: USDA PLANTS lists duration as Annual; its minimum-temperature definition does not apply to summer annuals.

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 (7)

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

7 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “flame height (cm): 150” · score 150 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 18033; Combustibility measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel dead; predrying no; device burning bench; site Sahila2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Sahila2023: Sahila, A., Boutchiche, H., Viegas, D. X., Reis, L., & Zekri, N. (2023). A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 32, 979-988.
- “mass loss rate (g/s): 7” · score 7 (FLAMITS — mass loss rate (g/s))
  
  FLAMITS record 18034; Combustibility measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel dead; predrying no; device burning bench; site Sahila2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Sahila2023: Sahila, A., Boutchiche, H., Viegas, D. X., Reis, L., & Zekri, N. (2023). A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 32, 979-988.
- “maximum flame temperature (°C): 334” · score 334 (FLAMITS — maximum flame temperature (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 18035; Combustibility measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel dead; predrying no; device burning bench; site Sahila2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Sahila2023: Sahila, A., Boutchiche, H., Viegas, D. X., Reis, L., & Zekri, N. (2023). A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 32, 979-988.
- “flaming duration (s): 296” · score 296 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 18036; Sustainability measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel dead; predrying no; device burning bench; site Sahila2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Sahila2023: Sahila, A., Boutchiche, H., Viegas, D. X., Reis, L., & Zekri, N. (2023). A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 32, 979-988.
- “time to flaming (s): 25” · score 25 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 18037; Ignitability measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel dead; predrying no; device burning bench; site Sahila2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Sahila2023: Sahila, A., Boutchiche, H., Viegas, D. X., Reis, L., & Zekri, N. (2023). A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 32, 979-988.
- “flaming duration (s): 230” · score 230 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 18042; Sustainability measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel dead; predrying no; device burning bench; site Sahila2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Sahila2023: Sahila, A., Boutchiche, H., Viegas, D. X., Reis, L., & Zekri, N. (2023). A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 32, 979-988.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 5374.03” · score 5374.03 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 18043; Combustibility measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel dead; predrying no; device burning bench; site Sahila2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Sahila2023: Sahila, A., Boutchiche, H., Viegas, D. X., Reis, L., & Zekri, N. (2023). A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 32, 979-988.

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