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Cotoneaster franchetii

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence: Mixed evidence — 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: 0 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Global
Maintenance: No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: No state distribution is normalized.
Native range: No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
Introduced / established: 3 sourced range or established records; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
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: 1 ecological invasive report; set a location to distinguish exact from regional context.
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.

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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
Region: France
Rated in: Global
Family: Rosaceae
Evidence: 13 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 native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

3

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

3 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04

California (CA)
Oregon (OR)
Washington (WA)

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 (13)

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

13 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “time to flaming (s): 93.31” · score 93.31 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 3652; Ignitability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device epiradiator; site Ganteaume2018-1; sampling summer. Primary study Ganteaume2018: Ganteaume, A. (2018). Does plant flammability differ between leaf and litter bed scale? Role of fuel characteristics and consequences for flammability assessment. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27, 342-352.
- “flaming duration (s): 78.83” · score 78.83 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 3667; Sustainability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device epiradiator; site Ganteaume2018-1; sampling summer. Primary study Ganteaume2018: Ganteaume, A. (2018). Does plant flammability differ between leaf and litter bed scale? Role of fuel characteristics and consequences for flammability assessment. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27, 342-352.
- “ignition frequency (%): 38.5” · score 38.5 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 3682; Ignitability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device epiradiator; site Ganteaume2018-1; sampling summer. Primary study Ganteaume2018: Ganteaume, A. (2018). Does plant flammability differ between leaf and litter bed scale? Role of fuel characteristics and consequences for flammability assessment. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27, 342-352.
- “flame propagation: 2.78” · score 2.78 (FLAMITS — flame propagation)
  
  FLAMITS record 3697; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel all; predrying yes; device epiradiator; site Ganteaume2018-1; sampling summer. Primary study Ganteaume2018: Ganteaume, A. (2018). Does plant flammability differ between leaf and litter bed scale? Role of fuel characteristics and consequences for flammability assessment. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27, 342-352.
- “time to flaming (s): 8.02” · score 8.02 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 3712; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Ganteaume2018-1; sampling summer. Primary study Ganteaume2018: Ganteaume, A. (2018). Does plant flammability differ between leaf and litter bed scale? Role of fuel characteristics and consequences for flammability assessment. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27, 342-352.
- “flaming duration (s): 17.64” · score 17.64 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 3727; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Ganteaume2018-1; sampling summer. Primary study Ganteaume2018: Ganteaume, A. (2018). Does plant flammability differ between leaf and litter bed scale? Role of fuel characteristics and consequences for flammability assessment. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27, 342-352.
- “ignition frequency (%): 50” · score 50 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 3742; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Ganteaume2018-1; sampling summer. Primary study Ganteaume2018: Ganteaume, A. (2018). Does plant flammability differ between leaf and litter bed scale? Role of fuel characteristics and consequences for flammability assessment. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27, 342-352.
- “time to flaming (s): 17” · score 17 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 13013; Ignitability measurement; plant part branches; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Terrei2019-1; sampling april to june. Primary study Terrei2019: Terrei, L., Lamorlette, A., & Ganteaume, A. (2019). Modelling the fire propagation from the fuel bed to the lower canopy of ornamental species used in wildlandurban interfaces. International journal of wildland fire, 28, 113-126.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 261” · score 261 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13017; Ignitability measurement; plant part branches; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Terrei2019-1; sampling april to june. Primary study Terrei2019: Terrei, L., Lamorlette, A., & Ganteaume, A. (2019). Modelling the fire propagation from the fuel bed to the lower canopy of ornamental species used in wildlandurban interfaces. International journal of wildland fire, 28, 113-126.
- “flaming duration (s): 44” · score 44 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 13021; Sustainability measurement; plant part branches; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Terrei2019-1; sampling april to june. Primary study Terrei2019: Terrei, L., Lamorlette, A., & Ganteaume, A. (2019). Modelling the fire propagation from the fuel bed to the lower canopy of ornamental species used in wildlandurban interfaces. International journal of wildland fire, 28, 113-126.
- “mass loss rate (g/s): 0.08” · score 0.08 (FLAMITS — mass loss rate (g/s))
  
  FLAMITS record 13025; Combustibility measurement; plant part branches; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Terrei2019-1; sampling april to june. Primary study Terrei2019: Terrei, L., Lamorlette, A., & Ganteaume, A. (2019). Modelling the fire propagation from the fuel bed to the lower canopy of ornamental species used in wildlandurban interfaces. International journal of wildland fire, 28, 113-126.
- “maximum flame temperature (°C): 581” · score 581 (FLAMITS — maximum flame temperature (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 13029; Combustibility measurement; plant part branches; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Terrei2019-1; sampling april to june. Primary study Terrei2019: Terrei, L., Lamorlette, A., & Ganteaume, A. (2019). Modelling the fire propagation from the fuel bed to the lower canopy of ornamental species used in wildlandurban interfaces. International journal of wildland fire, 28, 113-126.
- “rate of burning spread (cm/s): 0.77” · score 0.77 (FLAMITS — rate of burning spread (cm/s))
  
  FLAMITS record 13033; Sustainability measurement; plant part branches; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Terrei2019-1; sampling april to june. Primary study Terrei2019: Terrei, L., Lamorlette, A., & Ganteaume, A. (2019). Modelling the fire propagation from the fuel bed to the lower canopy of ornamental species used in wildlandurban interfaces. International journal of wildland fire, 28, 113-126.

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