Current native
0
exact source areas
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Yellow bluestem
Bothriochloa ischaemum
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Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
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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
- Yavapai County, Arizona
- 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 AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, KS, LA, MS, NM, NY, OH, OK, PR, SC, TN, TX, UT, VI.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- 19 sourced range or established records; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
- 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
- 2 state noxious-weed seed records; 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.
Plant-specific state seed-list reviews (2)
- KS · Seed listed here. Restricted noxious-weed seed in the reviewed state seed sheet as of 2026-08-26. This answers only whether the plant identity appears in the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed sheet. It does not establish non-seed plant legal status, ecological-invasive status, nursery-sale rules, or unrestricted use.
- NE · Seed-list name scope unresolved. An exact source taxon is governed by “Primary” or an applicable source note, so the qualified row is held instead of publishing an unconditional result. This answers only whether the plant identity appears in the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed sheet. It does not establish non-seed plant legal status, ecological-invasive status, nursery-sale rules, or unrestricted use.
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
- Grows in
- AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, KS +12
- Rated in
- Yavapai County, Arizona
- Family
- Poaceae
- Evidence
- 1 cited source
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
18
exact source areas
Qualified
0
doubtful or extinct source rows
18 introduced source areas
- Alabama (AL)
- Arkansas (AR)
- Arizona (AZ)
- California (CA)
- Colorado (CO)
- Florida (FL)
- Hawaii (HI)
- Kansas (KS)
- Louisiana (LA)
- Mississippi (MS)
- New Mexico (NM)
- New York (NY)
- Oklahoma (OK)
- Puerto Rico (PR)
- South Carolina (SC)
- Tennessee (TN)
- Texas (TX)
- Utah (UT)
The evidence
Avoids (1)
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Fire-Resistant and Fire-Prone Plants Common to Yavapai County (Bulletin 34)
“Fire-Prone Plants”
Listed as Yellow bluestem — Bothriochloa ischaemum. The bulletin says fire-resistant plants tend to resist ignition when irrigated and maintained, while fire-prone plants may ignite readily and burn intensely.
