Current native
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exact source areas
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Orchardgrass
Dactylis glomerata
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Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Fire-resistant — 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
- British Columbia; Global; Montana / Northern Rockies; Utah / Intermountain West; southern Idaho / Intermountain
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 3 scopes across 3 cited fire sources
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- 52 sourced range or established records; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
- USDA hardiness
- Documented minimum 5a; 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
- 3 ecological invasive reports; 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.
Plant-specific state seed-list reviews (7)
- DE · Seed-list name scope unresolved. An exact source taxon is governed by “Restricted Noxious-Weed Seed in Lawn and Turf Seed and Mixtures” or an applicable source note, so the qualified row is held instead of publishing an unconditional result. This answers only whether the plant identity appears in the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed sheet. It does not establish non-seed plant legal status, ecological-invasive status, nursery-sale rules, or unrestricted use.
- MD · Seed-list name scope unresolved. An exact source taxon is governed by “Restricted Noxious-Weed Seed in Lawn and Turf Seed and Mixtures” or an applicable source note, so the qualified row is held instead of publishing an unconditional result. This answers only whether the plant identity appears in the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed sheet. It does not establish non-seed plant legal status, ecological-invasive status, nursery-sale rules, or unrestricted use.
- NH · Seed-list name scope unresolved. An exact source taxon is governed by “Undesirable Grass Seeds” or an applicable source note, so the qualified row is held instead of publishing an unconditional result. This answers only whether the plant identity appears in the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed sheet. It does not establish non-seed plant legal status, ecological-invasive status, nursery-sale rules, or unrestricted use.
- NJ · Seed-list name scope unresolved. An exact source taxon is governed by “Restricted weed seed in lawn and turf seed and mixtures” or an applicable source note, so the qualified row is held instead of publishing an unconditional result. This answers only whether the plant identity appears in the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed sheet. It does not establish non-seed plant legal status, ecological-invasive status, nursery-sale rules, or unrestricted use.
- PA · Seed-list name scope unresolved. An exact source taxon is governed by “Restricted (Undesirable Grass Seeds) in lawn and turf seeds” or an applicable source note, so the qualified row is held instead of publishing an unconditional result. This answers only whether the plant identity appears in the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed sheet. It does not establish non-seed plant legal status, ecological-invasive status, nursery-sale rules, or unrestricted use.
- VA · Seed-list name scope unresolved. An exact source taxon is governed by “Restricted - Lawn and turf seed only” or an applicable source note, so the qualified row is held instead of publishing an unconditional result. This answers only whether the plant identity appears in the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed sheet. It does not establish non-seed plant legal status, ecological-invasive status, nursery-sale rules, or unrestricted use.
- WV · Seed-list name scope unresolved. An exact source taxon is governed by “Restricted Noxious-weed Seed in Lawn and Turf Seed and Mixture” or an applicable source note, so the qualified row is held instead of publishing an unconditional result. This answers only whether the plant identity appears in the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed sheet. It does not establish non-seed plant legal status, ecological-invasive status, nursery-sale rules, or unrestricted use.
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
- grass
- USDA hardiness
- Minimum 5a; upper limit not documented
- Mature height
- ~2 ft
- Water need
- low
- Grows in
- AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC +44
- Rated in
- British Columbia; Global; Montana / Northern Rockies; Utah / Intermountain West +1
- Family
- Poaceae
- Evidence
- 8 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
52
exact source areas
Qualified
0
doubtful or extinct source rows
52 introduced source areas
- Aleutian Is. (AK)
- Alaska (AK)
- Alabama (AL)
- Arizona (AZ)
- California (CA)
- Colorado (CO)
- Connecticut (CT)
- District of Columbia (DC)
- Delaware (DE)
- Florida (FL)
- Georgia (GA)
- Hawaii (HI)
- Iowa (IA)
- Idaho (ID)
- Illinois (IL)
- Indiana (IN)
- Kansas (KS)
- Kentucky (KY)
- Louisiana (LA)
- Massachusetts (MA)
- Maryland (MD)
- Maine (ME)
- Michigan (MI)
- Minnesota (MN)
- Missouri (MO)
- Mississippi (MS)
- Montana (MT)
- North Carolina (NC)
- North Dakota (ND)
- Nebraska (NE)
- New Hampshire (NH)
- New Jersey (NJ)
- New Mexico (NM)
- Nevada (NV)
- New York (NY)
- Ohio (OH)
- Oklahoma (OK)
- Oregon (OR)
- Pennsylvania (PA)
- Puerto Rico (PR)
- Rhode I. (RI)
- South Carolina (SC)
- South Dakota (SD)
- Tennessee (TN)
- Texas (TX)
- Utah (UT)
- Virginia (VA)
- Vermont (VT)
- Washington (WA)
- Wisconsin (WI)
- West Virginia (WV)
- Wyoming (WY)
Plant hardiness evidence
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USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics
Minimum 5a · no upper limit documented
Where its sources say to plant it
- Fire Resistance of Plants Master Database: plantable at 60' from home
- FireSmart BC Plant Program: suitable for HIZ extended zone (30-100 m)
The evidence
Recommends (3)
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FireSmart BC Plant Program — fire-resistant plant chart
“FireSmart-approved fire-resistant plant”
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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.
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Fire-Resistant Plants for Montana Landscapes (MontGuide MT200101AG)
“listed fire-resistant”
Listed among fire-resistant plant species adapted to Montana.
Mid-scale / conditional (1)
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Fire Resistance of Plants Master Database
“fire-resistance score 5 of 10”
Listed without a rating (4)
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FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
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“ignition frequency (%): 83.3”
FLAMITS record 1378; Ignitability measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Cui2020a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Cui2020a: Cui, X., Paterson, A. M., Wyse, S. V., Alam, M. A., Maurin, K. J. L., Pieper, R., ... Curran, T. J. (2020a). Shoot flammability of vascular plants is phylogenetically conserved and related to habitat fire-proneness and growth form. Nature Plants, 6, 355-359.
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“maximum sample temperature (°C): 284.2”
FLAMITS record 1572; Combustibility measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Cui2020a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Cui2020a: Cui, X., Paterson, A. M., Wyse, S. V., Alam, M. A., Maurin, K. J. L., Pieper, R., ... Curran, T. J. (2020a). Shoot flammability of vascular plants is phylogenetically conserved and related to habitat fire-proneness and growth form. Nature Plants, 6, 355-359.
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“burning duration (s): 5.3”
FLAMITS record 1766; Sustainability measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Cui2020a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Cui2020a: Cui, X., Paterson, A. M., Wyse, S. V., Alam, M. A., Maurin, K. J. L., Pieper, R., ... Curran, T. J. (2020a). Shoot flammability of vascular plants is phylogenetically conserved and related to habitat fire-proneness and growth form. Nature Plants, 6, 355-359.
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“estimated burnt biomass (%): 49.2”
FLAMITS record 1960; Consumability measurement; plant part whole plant; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Cui2020a-1; sampling ND. Primary study Cui2020a: Cui, X., Paterson, A. M., Wyse, S. V., Alam, M. A., Maurin, K. J. L., Pieper, R., ... Curran, T. J. (2020a). Shoot flammability of vascular plants is phylogenetically conserved and related to habitat fire-proneness and growth form. Nature Plants, 6, 355-359.
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