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Engelmann's daisy has a favorable local hazard rating, while its broader fire-resistance status remains uncertain.
The Sun City Texas Firewise Group places it in the low flammability-hazard category among perennials. The row is printed as “Daisy, Engelmann” and “Engelmann peristenia.” The guide defines this hazard as the ease of burning at high temperatures for a prolonged time. It does not present a species-specific burn experiment behind the rating.
The same row gives medium water requirements, which the table defines as water needed after establishment. A low hazard label should therefore stay attached to those growing needs, rather than imply that the perennial can be neglected through drought.
This is guidance compiled for the Sun City community in Georgetown. It offers a local reason to consider Engelmann's daisy, with continuing moisture management, but does not establish a statewide Texas recommendation or a tested firebreak performance claim.
Form
perennial
Mature height
~4 ft
Water need
moderate
Rated in
Georgetown, Texas
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Sun City Texas, Georgetown (TX footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2015-01-14
The guide is authored for the Sun City Texas community in Georgetown. FireApproved publishes 142 exact owners only as community-level context. It is an archived HOA exhibit with unknown rating lineage, not a current statewide Texas source or an independent Tier 1 determination.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in AR, AZ, CO, KS, MO, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX.
Native range
Current cited native range in AR, AZ, CO, KS, MO, NE, NM, OK, SD, TX.
Introduced / established
USDA hardiness
Documented minimum 6b; no upper limit is documented.
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.
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.
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.
Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 34568, Temperature, Minimum (°F).
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.
Firewise Plant Guide: Perennials [Sun City plant-table sections] (with its recommendation)
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.
The table rates Daisy, Engelmann — Engelmann peristenia low for flammability hazard, defined as the ease a plant can burn at high temperatures for a prolonged time.
