Enter your ZIP to see whether this is legal to plant in your state, and whether it survives your winter.
Five-leaf aralia is on-list on the evidence table. The accepted fire pack for Eleutherococcus pentaphyllus remains limited evidence, with 1 ecological invasive report held apart from the listing.
The hardiness evidence and related plants sections remain navigation routes, not additions to the selected fire basis. On pentaphyllus, listing, source depth, and ecological status retain their own roles. A second visit to the accepted rows keeps the computed direction visible without using the invasive report or a comparison record as further support. Its hardiness destination remains a separate contextual path through the record.
Form
shrub
Rated in
Michigan / Great Lakes
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Michigan / Great Lakes
Maintenance
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
Michigan State University Extension Bulletin E2948 is explicitly a list of wildfire-resistant landscape plants for Michigan and includes a Michigan-native field. FireApproved publishes 221 exact GBIF owners from 226 represented source rows and holds 15 complex or non-exact rows. This dated publication scope is not a current site-suitability determination.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in CT, IN, KY, MA, MI, NY, OH, PA, UT, WV.
Native range
Introduced / established
1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Documented range 4–8.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
Broader regional context
Federal context
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.
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.
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.
