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Celastrus is a genus-rank umbrella record. It is limited evidence and carries an avoid result in the source table. Those facts remain attached to genus-level evidence instead of becoming one position for every bittersweet species.
The cited rows preserve the recommendation and its support depth. When that umbrella result affects the planting plan, related plants offers cited same-form alternatives whose evidence stays independent. The genus picker keeps individual species records distinct from this broader source scope. This boundary keeps the avoid result reviewable at its published rank without projecting it onto a species.
Ohio State University Extension Bulletin 921 is an Ohio publication that describes Ohio fire seasons and landscape conditions and labels nativity to Ohio. FireApproved publishes 352 exact source-owning plant records from its eight rated tables. This historical publication scope does not assert current extension endorsement or that a listed plant suits every Ohio site.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in OH.
Native range
The legacy compatibility field lists OH in native range; its field-level source was not retained.
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.
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.
