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Catalpas (Catalpa)
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Catalpas

Catalpa · Bignoniaceae · all Catalpa records · also called Western catalpa · Wikipedia

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For Catalpa, the computed direction is on-list on the evidence table. A limited evidence label keeps the support boundary explicit instead of letting the result imply a large source base. Both facts belong to this cited umbrella entry.

The genus-rank umbrella record remains distinct from the species organized on the genus page. Any hardiness evidence also stays outside the fire result. When comparison is useful, related plants provides a separate route that does not lend this entry's on-list direction to another Catalpa record. This boundary keeps hardiness, taxonomic scope, and fire direction from being merged.

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Rated in
Nevada / Great Basin; OR/WA/ID
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Nevada / Great Basin; OR/WA/ID
Typed publication scope: 2 scopes across 2 cited fire sources
  • Fire-Resistant Plants for Home Landscapes (PNW 590) · Official scoped edition
    • ID, OR, WA; partial normalized coverage · 2023-10-01

      The October 2023 joint Pacific Northwest Extension publication explicitly names Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and publishes more than 150 plant profiles. FireApproved has normalized 155 exact plant records from the source; publication scope does not assert that every listed plant suits every site within the three states.

  • A Compilation of Good Plant Choices for Nevada's High Fire Hazard Areas (SP-05-16) · Official scoped edition
    • NV; partial normalized coverage · 2005-01-01

      University of Nevada Cooperative Extension compiled plants suited to Nevada climate zones and reported favorably by at least two upstream firewise lists. FireApproved publishes 126 exact source owners at Nevada publication scope. The source explicitly makes no independent flammability determination, so these rows remain corroborative.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in ID, OR, WA.
USDA hardiness
Documented range 4–8.

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.

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.

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.

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Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)

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

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Catalpa (Western catalpa). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/catalpa/. Last verified 2026-08-23.