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Native Hop

Dodonaea viscosa · Sapindaceae · all Dodonaea records

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence: Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions: 1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
Fire ecology context: No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
Placement evidence: 1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Global; Marin County, California; New Zealand; Tasmania, Australia
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

Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County · Official scoped edition
- Marin County (CA footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2019-01-01
  The publication is explicitly limited to plants common to Marin County. FireApproved publishes 104 exact owners as Marin regional context while retaining its placement, spacing, irrigation, and maintenance boundary. It is not statewide California guidance or parcel suitability.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: Documented in AZ, CA, FL, HI, PR, VI.
Native range: Current cited native range in AZ, FL, HI, PR.
Introduced / established: 1 sourced range or established record; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness: Documented minimum 8b; 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.

Native Hop (Dodonaea viscosa) — Photo: (c) Jeremy Gilmore, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

Form: shrub
USDA hardiness: Minimum 8b; upper limit not documented
Mature height: ~15 ft
Water need: low
Current cited native range: AZ, FL, HI, PR
Grows in: AZ, CA, FL, HI, PR, VI
Rated in: Global; Marin County, California; New Zealand; Tasmania, Australia
Family: Sapindaceae
Evidence: 35 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

4

exact source areas

Current introduced

1

exact source area

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

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

Arizona (AZ)
Florida (FL)
Hawaii (HI)
Puerto Rico (PR)

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

California (CA)

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.

Plant hardiness evidence

These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.

USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics · record DOVI · PLANTS Help Document 2022; characteristics cache retrieved 2026-08-23 · as of 2026-08-26

Minimum 8b · no upper limit documented · half zone precision · derived containing band

Exact source measurement: 18°F; mapped only to its containing half-zone.

Source taxon: Dodonaea viscosa · source identifier match.

Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 93699, Temperature, Minimum (°F).

Conditions in the fire evidence

These describe tested or rated plant material. They are not horticultural maintenance instructions.

irrigated: Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County evidence row

Where its sources say to plant it

Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating. They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.

Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rur…: remove from the Building Protection Zone; avoid in the Fuel Modified Zone [Texas Building Protection Zone] (with its avoid rating)

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.

Avoids (1)

Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rural Areas — Tasmania Fire Service (Chladil & Sheridan; photographs Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens) · 2017 · original source Primary evidence Expert-curated lineage: utas-tree

“High Flammability”

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

A quantitative assessment of shoot flammability for 60 tree and shrub species — International Journal of Wildland Fire (Wyse, Perry, O'Connell, Holland, Wright, Hosted, Whitelock, Geary, Maurin, Curran) · 2016 · original source Primary evidence Lab-tested lineage: lincoln-nz-tree

“Moderate flammability category (Fig. 2)”

Shoot category from the paper's cluster analysis; samples were air-dried for 24 hours before testing.

Listed without a rating (31)

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

31 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “ignition frequency (%): 90.5” · score 90.5 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 1382; Ignitability measurement; plant part branches; 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.
- “maximum sample temperature (°C): 408.6” · score 408.6 (FLAMITS — maximum sample temperature (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 1576; Combustibility measurement; plant part branches; 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.
- “burning duration (s): 9.3” · score 9.3 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 1770; Sustainability measurement; plant part branches; 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.
- “estimated burnt biomass (%): 29.5” · score 29.5 (FLAMITS — estimated burnt biomass (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 1964; Consumability measurement; plant part branches; 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.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 5219.64” · score 5219.64 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 2924; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Dickinson1985-1; sampling winter. Primary study Dickinson1985: Dickinson, K. J. M., & Kirkpatrick, J. B. (1985). The flammability and energy content of some important plant-species and fuel components in the forests of Southeastern Tasmania. Journal of Biogeography, 12, 121-134.
- “rate of burning spread (cm/s): 0.25” · score 0.25 (FLAMITS — rate of burning spread (cm/s))
  
  FLAMITS record 2940; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Dickinson1985-1; sampling winter. Primary study Dickinson1985: Dickinson, K. J. M., & Kirkpatrick, J. B. (1985). The flammability and energy content of some important plant-species and fuel components in the forests of Southeastern Tasmania. Journal of Biogeography, 12, 121-134.
- “time to flaming (s): 16.28” · score 16.28 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 3827; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Gill1996-1; sampling march to april. Primary study Gill1996: Gill, M., & Moore, P. (1996). Ignitibility of leaves of Australian plants. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CSIRO Plant Industry.
- “time to flaming (s): 3.84” · score 3.84 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 3875; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device muffle furnace; site Gill1996-1; sampling march to april. Primary study Gill1996: Gill, M., & Moore, P. (1996). Ignitibility of leaves of Australian plants. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CSIRO Plant Industry.
- “time to flaming (s): 2.41” · score 2.41 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4062; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel dead; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “flaming duration (s): 2.3” · score 2.3 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4094; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel dead; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “smouldering duration (s): 11.29” · score 11.29 (FLAMITS — smouldering duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4126; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel dead; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “burning duration (s): 13.59” · score 13.59 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4158; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel dead; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “time to flaming (s): 8.11” · score 8.11 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4190; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “burning duration (s): 14.24” · score 14.24 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4222; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “smouldering duration (s): 12.1” · score 12.1 (FLAMITS — smouldering duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4254; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “flaming duration (s): 2.14” · score 2.14 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4286; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “time to flaming (s): 1.72” · score 1.72 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4318; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “flaming duration (s): 2” · score 2 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4348; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “smouldering duration (s): 12.82” · score 12.82 (FLAMITS — smouldering duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4378; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “burning duration (s): 14.82” · score 14.82 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4408; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND. Primary study Grootemaat2015: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I. J., Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H., & Cornwell, W. K. (2015). Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species. Functional Ecology, 29, 1486-1497.
- “maximum flame temperature (°C): 712.83” · score 712.83 (FLAMITS — maximum flame temperature (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 4467; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2017a-1; sampling december. Primary study Grootemaat2017a: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I .J., Van Bodegom, P. M., & Cornelissen, J. H. (2017). Scaling up flammability from individual leaves to fuel beds. Oikos, 126, 1428-1438.
- “rate of burning spread (cm/s): 0.16” · score 0.16 (FLAMITS — rate of burning spread (cm/s))
  
  FLAMITS record 4491; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2017a-1; sampling december. Primary study Grootemaat2017a: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I .J., Van Bodegom, P. M., & Cornelissen, J. H. (2017). Scaling up flammability from individual leaves to fuel beds. Oikos, 126, 1428-1438.
- “burnt biomass (%): 90” · score 90 (FLAMITS — burnt biomass (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 4517; Consumability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2017a-1; sampling december. Primary study Grootemaat2017a: Grootemaat, S., Wright, I .J., Van Bodegom, P. M., & Cornelissen, J. H. (2017). Scaling up flammability from individual leaves to fuel beds. Oikos, 126, 1428-1438.
- “ignition frequency (%): 77.8” · score 77.8 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 14338; Ignitability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Wyse2016-3; sampling ND. Primary study Wyse2016: Wyse, S. V., Perry, G. L. W., O'Connell, D. M., Holland, P. S., Wright, M. J., Hosted, C. L., ... Curran, T. J. (2016). A quantitative assessment of shoot flammability for 60 tree and shrub species supports rankings based on expert opinion. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25, 466-477.
- “maximum sample temperature (°C): 268.1” · score 268.1 (FLAMITS — maximum sample temperature (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 14398; Combustibility measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Wyse2016-3; sampling ND. Primary study Wyse2016: Wyse, S. V., Perry, G. L. W., O'Connell, D. M., Holland, P. S., Wright, M. J., Hosted, C. L., ... Curran, T. J. (2016). A quantitative assessment of shoot flammability for 60 tree and shrub species supports rankings based on expert opinion. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25, 466-477.
- “burning duration (s): 2.9” · score 2.9 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 14458; Sustainability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Wyse2016-3; sampling ND. Primary study Wyse2016: Wyse, S. V., Perry, G. L. W., O'Connell, D. M., Holland, P. S., Wright, M. J., Hosted, C. L., ... Curran, T. J. (2016). A quantitative assessment of shoot flammability for 60 tree and shrub species supports rankings based on expert opinion. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25, 466-477.
- “estimated burnt biomass (%): 16.1” · score 16.1 (FLAMITS — estimated burnt biomass (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 14518; Consumability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Wyse2016-3; sampling ND. Primary study Wyse2016: Wyse, S. V., Perry, G. L. W., O'Connell, D. M., Holland, P. S., Wright, M. J., Hosted, C. L., ... Curran, T. J. (2016). A quantitative assessment of shoot flammability for 60 tree and shrub species supports rankings based on expert opinion. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25, 466-477.
- “time to flaming (s): 1.3” · score 1.3 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 19373; Ignitability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Murray2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Murray2023: Murray, B. R., Hawthorne, T., Curran, T. J., Krix, D. W., Wallace, M. I., Young, K., ... & Webb, J. K. (2023). Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildlandurban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early.
- “burning duration (s): 6.7” · score 6.7 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 19374; Sustainability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Murray2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Murray2023: Murray, B. R., Hawthorne, T., Curran, T. J., Krix, D. W., Wallace, M. I., Young, K., ... & Webb, J. K. (2023). Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildlandurban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early.
- “maximum flame temperature (°C): 311.5” · score 311.5 (FLAMITS — maximum flame temperature (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 19375; Combustibility measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Murray2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Murray2023: Murray, B. R., Hawthorne, T., Curran, T. J., Krix, D. W., Wallace, M. I., Young, K., ... & Webb, J. K. (2023). Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildlandurban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early.
- “estimated burnt biomass (%): 15.2” · score 15.2 (FLAMITS — estimated burnt biomass (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 19376; Consumability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Murray2023-1; sampling ND. Primary study Murray2023: Murray, B. R., Hawthorne, T., Curran, T. J., Krix, D. W., Wallace, M. I., Young, K., ... & Webb, J. K. (2023). Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildlandurban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early.

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Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Dodonaea viscosa (Native Hop). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/dodonaea-viscosa/. Last verified 2026-08-23.