Current native
37
exact source areas
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Virgin's bower clematis
Clematis virginiana
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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
- 1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Ohio / Midwest; Virginia / Mid-Atlantic; eastern US
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 2 scopes across 2 cited fire sources
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV.
- Native range
- Current cited native range in AL, AR, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- Documented minimum 3a; no upper limit is documented.
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
- vine
- USDA hardiness
- Minimum 3a; upper limit not documented
- Mature height
- ~40 ft
- Light
- Full sun
- Water need
- moderate
- Current cited native range
- AL, AR, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV
- Grows in
- AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA +30
- Rated in
- Ohio / Midwest; Virginia / Mid-Atlantic; eastern US
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Evidence
- 3 cited sources
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 introduced
0
exact source areas
Qualified
0
doubtful or extinct source rows
37 native source areas
- Alabama (AL)
- Arkansas (AR)
- Connecticut (CT)
- Delaware (DE)
- Florida (FL)
- Georgia (GA)
- Iowa (IA)
- Illinois (IL)
- Indiana (IN)
- Kansas (KS)
- Kentucky (KY)
- Louisiana (LA)
- Massachusetts (MA)
- Maryland (MD)
- Maine (ME)
- Michigan (MI)
- Minnesota (MN)
- Missouri (MO)
- Mississippi (MS)
- North Carolina (NC)
- North Dakota (ND)
- Nebraska (NE)
- New Hampshire (NH)
- New Jersey (NJ)
- New York (NY)
- Ohio (OH)
- Oklahoma (OK)
- Pennsylvania (PA)
- Rhode I. (RI)
- South Carolina (SC)
- South Dakota (SD)
- Tennessee (TN)
- Texas (TX)
- Virginia (VA)
- Vermont (VT)
- Wisconsin (WI)
- West Virginia (WV)
Plant hardiness evidence
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Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
Source prints 5 · single-value meaning unresolved
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USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics
Minimum 3a · no upper limit documented
Where its sources say to plant it
- Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector: Landscape Zone 4 — beyond 30 ft; outside the selector's recommendation area
The evidence
Avoids (2)
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Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
“NOT Firewise (4)”
Native vinewith scented white flowers in late summer into fall. Good screen plant on a chain link fence as long as it doesn't touch structures.
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Firewise Landscaping (OSU Extension Bulletin 921)
“H flammability”
Shade intolerant; adapts to a variety of conditions.
Listed without a rating (1)
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Virginia Firescapes — Firewise Landscaping for Woodland Homes (430-300)
“rating cell blank in source”
May be used as groundcover. Vigorous.
