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Chloris virgata · Poaceae · also called Chloris virgata · Wikipedia

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Chloris virgata has both native and introduced records under range evidence. The two geographic relations stay explicit as the scene's opening distinction.

One ecological invasive report accompanies that range account. The fire-source material is limited evidence, and the evidence table preserves its current extent without adding an unsupported condition or result.

The related plants section provides comparison beyond this record. That route remains separate from the native-versus-introduced split and does not broaden the single ecological report into a claim about those alternatives. The comparison is not an additional range or status assertion.

Form
grass
Rated in
Global
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT.
Native range
Current cited native range in AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT.
Introduced / established
1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Reported invasive here
1 ecological invasive report.
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.

Current native

30

exact source areas

Current introduced

1

exact source area

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

30 native source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Alabama (AL)
  • Arkansas (AR)
  • Arizona (AZ)
  • California (CA)
  • Colorado (CO)
  • Florida (FL)
  • Georgia (GA)
  • Illinois (IL)
  • Indiana (IN)
  • Kansas (KS)
  • Kentucky (KY)
  • Louisiana (LA)
  • Massachusetts (MA)
  • Maryland (MD)
  • Maine (ME)
  • Missouri (MO)
  • Mississippi (MS)
  • North Carolina (NC)
  • North Dakota (ND)
  • Nebraska (NE)
  • New Mexico (NM)
  • Nevada (NV)
  • New York (NY)
  • Ohio (OH)
  • Oklahoma (OK)
  • Pennsylvania (PA)
  • South Carolina (SC)
  • Tennessee (TN)
  • Texas (TX)
  • Utah (UT)
1 introduced source area · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Hawaii (HI)

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.

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 (3)
Corroboration (3 rows from 1 source)

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

    3 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Zhang2011: Zhang, Z., Zhang, H., & Zhou, D. (2011). Flammability characterisation of grassland species of Songhua Jiang-Nen Jiang Plain (China) using thermal analysis. Fire Safety Journal, 46, 283-288.

      Shared row context: plant part litter; fuel live; predrying yes; site Zhang2011-1; sampling november.

      • “calorific value (kcal/kg): 3821.7”

        FLAMITS record 14637; Combustibility measurement; device calorimeter.

      • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 405.66”

        FLAMITS record 14647; Combustibility measurement; device thermal analyzer.

      • “burning duration (s): 35.46”

        FLAMITS record 14657; Sustainability measurement; device thermal analyzer.

Fire-resistant grasss instead

tall fescue
Festuca arundinacea tall fescue
Lolium arundinaceum fox sedge
Carex vulpinoidea whitegrass
Leersia virginica green bulrush
Scirpus atrovirens longhair sedge
Carex comosa

Last verified 2026-08-25. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Chloris virgata (Chloris virgata). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/chloris-virgata/. Last verified 2026-08-25.