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Florida hopbush (Dodonaea viscosa)
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Florida hopbush

Dodonaea viscosa · Sapindaceae · all Dodonaea records · also called Native Hop · Wikipedia

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Dodonaea viscosa presents a conflict across its evidence rows. A quantitative assessment of shoot flammability is the selected lab lineage, and the record's irrigated condition remains attached to the cited experiment under test conditions. The condition describes that row; it does not erase the disagreement among sources.

The record also contains both native and introduced assertions, which can be followed under range evidence. That range split answers a different question from the fire conflict and its irrigated test condition. When those distinctions are clear, related plants gives cited same-form alternatives for comparison without collapsing the source, range, and condition evidence into one claim.

Fire-resistant shrubs instead

Form
shrub
Mature height
~15 ft
Water need
low
Rated in
Global; Marin County, California; New Zealand; Tasmania, Australia
On this lot

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.
Placement evidence
1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
Global; Marin County, California; New Zealand; Tasmania, Australia
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. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Documented minimum 8b; no upper limit is documented.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

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 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.

Conditions in the fire evidence

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

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.

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.

Recommends (2)

Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)

Avoids (1)

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

Listed without a rating (31)
Corroboration (31 rows from 1 source)

  • 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.

    • 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.

      Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Cui2020a-1; sampling ND.

      • “ignition frequency (%): 90.5”

        FLAMITS record 1382; Ignitability measurement.

      • “maximum sample temperature (°C): 408.6”

        FLAMITS record 1576; Combustibility measurement.

      • “burning duration (s): 9.3”

        FLAMITS record 1770; Sustainability measurement.

      • “estimated burnt biomass (%): 29.5”

        FLAMITS record 1964; Consumability measurement.

    • 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.

      Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Dickinson1985-1; sampling winter.

      • “calorific value (kcal/kg): 5219.64”

        FLAMITS record 2924; Combustibility measurement.

      • “rate of burning spread (cm/s): 0.25”

        FLAMITS record 2940; Sustainability measurement.

    • Primary study Gill1996: Gill, M., & Moore, P. (1996). Ignitibility of leaves of Australian plants. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CSIRO Plant Industry.

      Shared row context: Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; device muffle furnace; site Gill1996-1; sampling march to april.

      • “time to flaming (s): 16.28”

        FLAMITS record 3827; predrying no.

      • “time to flaming (s): 3.84”

        FLAMITS record 3875; predrying yes.

    • 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.

      Shared row context: plant part leaves; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2015-1; sampling ND.

      • “time to flaming (s): 2.41”

        FLAMITS record 4062; Ignitability measurement; fuel dead; predrying no.

      • Shared measurement context: Sustainability measurement; fuel dead; predrying no.

        • “flaming duration (s): 2.3”

          FLAMITS record 4094.

        • “smouldering duration (s): 11.29”

          FLAMITS record 4126.

        • “burning duration (s): 13.59”

          FLAMITS record 4158.

      • “time to flaming (s): 8.11”

        FLAMITS record 4190; Ignitability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.

      • Shared measurement context: Sustainability measurement; fuel live; predrying no.

        • “burning duration (s): 14.24”

          FLAMITS record 4222.

        • “smouldering duration (s): 12.1”

          FLAMITS record 4254.

        • “flaming duration (s): 2.14”

          FLAMITS record 4286.

      • “time to flaming (s): 1.72”

        FLAMITS record 4318; Ignitability measurement; fuel live; predrying yes.

      • Shared measurement context: Sustainability measurement; fuel live; predrying yes.

        • “flaming duration (s): 2”

          FLAMITS record 4348.

        • “smouldering duration (s): 12.82”

          FLAMITS record 4378.

        • “burning duration (s): 14.82”

          FLAMITS record 4408.

    • 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.

      Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device muffle furnace; site Grootemaat2017a-1; sampling december.

      • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 712.83”

        FLAMITS record 4467; Combustibility measurement.

      • “rate of burning spread (cm/s): 0.16”

        FLAMITS record 4491; Sustainability measurement.

      • “burnt biomass (%): 90”

        FLAMITS record 4517; Consumability measurement.

    • 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.

      Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Wyse2016-3; sampling ND.

      • “ignition frequency (%): 77.8”

        FLAMITS record 14338; Ignitability measurement.

      • “maximum sample temperature (°C): 268.1”

        FLAMITS record 14398; Combustibility measurement.

      • “burning duration (s): 2.9”

        FLAMITS record 14458; Sustainability measurement.

      • “estimated burnt biomass (%): 16.1”

        FLAMITS record 14518; Consumability measurement.

    • 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 wildland–urban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Online early.

      Shared row context: plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Murray2023-1; sampling ND.

      • “time to flaming (s): 1.3”

        FLAMITS record 19373; Ignitability measurement.

      • “burning duration (s): 6.7”

        FLAMITS record 19374; Sustainability measurement.

      • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 311.5”

        FLAMITS record 19375; Combustibility measurement.

      • “estimated burnt biomass (%): 15.2”

        FLAMITS record 19376; Consumability measurement.

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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.