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Rock-rose
Cistus spp.
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Highly flammable — 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
- 4 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Catalonia, Spain; Greece; Mainland Portugal; Utah / Intermountain West
- 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 UT.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- 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
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- Reported invasive here
- No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
- 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.
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
- shrub
- Grows in
- UT
- Rated in
- Catalonia, Spain; Greece; Mainland Portugal; Utah / Intermountain West
- Family
- Cistaceae
- Evidence
- 5 cited sources
Where its sources say to plant it
- Selective Shrub Management to Preserve Mediterranean Fore…: selectively control in fuel-management bands in mainland Portugal
- Guía de pirojardinería: not suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone
- Les franges perimetrals de protecció contra els incendis …: page 4 species-selection panel
- Κανονισμός Πυροπροστασίας Ακινήτων εντός ή πλησίον δασικώ…: section 5.4.2, Table 2δi
The evidence
Recommends (1)
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Firewise Plants for Utah Landscapes (NR/FF/002)
“listed as a firewise plant for Utah landscapes”
Source says the plant can be firewise when properly used and maintained. Source table name: Cistus species.
Avoids (4)
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Selective Shrub Management to Preserve Mediterranean Forests and Reduce the Risk of Fire
“Control”
Table 2 places this genus in the Control column. The authors describe the control group as heliophilous vegetation associated with fine fuels and traits linked to faster combustibility or greater flammability; this is a selective fuel-band management decision, not a global prohibition.
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“MUY DESACONSEJADA”
Cistus spp. is rated “MUY DESACONSEJADA” by the guide's qualitative IUF garden-suitability method. The method assumes species-specific care and integrates fire evidence with fuel structure, maintenance, origin, invasiveness, and expert fire-service experience.
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Les franges perimetrals de protecció contra els incendis forestals
“Cal eliminar prioritàriament les espècies més inflamables. — Estepes — Cistus sp.”
The guide says to remove this printed taxon first among the more-flammable species when opening and maintaining perimeter protection strips.
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Κανονισμός Πυροπροστασίας Ακινήτων εντός ή πλησίον δασικών εκτάσεων
“ΙΔΙΑΙΤΕΡΑ ΕΥΦΛΕΚΤΑ ΕΝΔΗΜΙΚΑ ΦΥΤΑ — Cistus sp.”
The regulation prints this taxon in its table of particularly flammable endemic trees and shrubs.
