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Splitawn sedge has a low hazard rating alongside a contrary placement recommendation, leaving its fire assessment mixed.
A gardener may encounter Carex tumulicola as Berkeley sedge in the Texas guidance. Travis County's Texas A&M AgriLife Extension list assigns it to the plants that should stay out of Zone 1. That zone occupies the first 30 feet from a structure, and the county directs the listed plants to Zones 2 or 3.
Sun City Texas's Firewise Group gives Berkeley sedge a low flammability hazard. The assessed hazard is a tendency to maintain hot burning for a prolonged period. This low score favors the sedge under that definition but supplies no reason to discard the county's placement advice.
The species is native in the northwestern and southwestern United States. For the planting decision, its two Texas findings remain distinct: one describes low hazard, while the other reserves the sedge for positions outside the innermost zone.
Form
grass
Rated in
Austin, Texas; Georgetown, Texas
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Sun City Texas, Georgetown (TX footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2015-01-14
The guide is authored for the Sun City Texas community in Georgetown. FireApproved publishes 142 exact owners only as community-level context. It is an archived HOA exhibit with unknown rating lineage, not a current statewide Texas source or an independent Tier 1 determination.
Travis County, Austin area (TX footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2024-01-16
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension publishes this page through its Travis County horticulture program. FireApproved publishes 56 exact owners and retains the source's zone and warning conditions. This is county/Austin regional context, not a second statewide Texas table or site clearance.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in CA, ID, OR, WA.
Native range
Current cited native range in CA, OR, WA.
Introduced / established
USDA hardiness
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
Broader regional context
Federal context
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.
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.
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.
Where its sources say to plant it
Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating.
They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.
Firewise Landscaping: Ground Cover [Travis County Firewise page sections] (with its avoid rating)
Firewise Plant Guide: Groundcover [Sun City plant-table sections] (with its recommendation)
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.
The table rates Sedge, Berkley — Carex tumtlicola low for flammability hazard, defined as the ease a plant can burn at high temperatures for a prolonged time.
“Plants to Avoid for Zone 1 (within 30′ of Structure)”
Listed as Sedge, Berkeley — Carex tumulicola. The page says Zone 1 entries should be restricted to zones 2 or 3; all-zone entries are highly flammable due to volatile oils or growth habit.
