Home / Plants / Grow / Carolina Safire Arizona cypress
Carolina Safire Arizona cypress
Cupressus glabra 'Carolina Safire'
Your local evidence lens
Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
A genus split is not a placement verdict. Set a ZIP to read the local documented split.
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
- 2 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Austin, Texas; eastern US
- 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 AZ, CA, DC, DE, MD, NJ, NM, NV, OH, PA, PR, TX, UT, WV.
- 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
- Documented minimum 5b; 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
- tree
- USDA hardiness
- Minimum 5b; upper limit not documented
- Mature height
- ~35 ft
- Light
- Full sun
- Water need
- low
- Grows in
- AZ, CA, DC, DE, MD, NJ, NM, NV +6
- Rated in
- Austin, Texas; eastern US
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Evidence
- 2 cited sources
Plant hardiness evidence
-
Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
Source prints 6 · single-value meaning unresolved
-
USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics
Minimum 5b · no upper limit documented
Where its sources say to plant it
- Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector: Landscape Zone 3 — 10–30 ft from the structure; thin vegetation, remove debris, and minimize plant massing
- Firewise Landscaping: Trees; High Flammability Plants to Consider Avoiding for all Zones
The evidence
Avoids (2)
-
Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector
“NOT Firewise (4)”
Blue-white foliage. Upright growing evergreen.
-
Firewise Landscaping (Travis County)
“High Flammability Plants to Consider Avoiding for all Zones”
Listed as Arizona Cypress — Hesperocyparis arizonica. The page says Zone 1 entries should be restricted to zones 2 or 3; all-zone entries are highly flammable due to volatile oils or growth habit.
