Enter your ZIP to see whether this is legal to plant in your state, and whether it survives your winter.
Erianthus ravennae has an avoid recommendation documented in the evidence table. That finding opens the plume grass profile and stays with this species record.
Its accepted fire sources are limited evidence. The source rows make the depth visible without substituting a hardiness observation or an unrecorded performance condition for fire evidence.
The same-form alternatives under related plants create a comparison path for the avoid finding. Hardiness evidence remains a separate climate reference, so it does not change the recommendation or strengthen the thin fire-source pack accepted for plume grass here.
Ohio State University Extension Bulletin 921 is an Ohio publication that describes Ohio fire seasons and landscape conditions and labels nativity to Ohio. FireApproved publishes 352 exact source-owning plant records from its eight rated tables. This historical publication scope does not assert current extension endorsement or that a listed plant suits every Ohio site.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in AZ, CA, CO, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, KS, MD, MI, MO, NM, NY, OH, OK, TN, UT.
Native range
Introduced / established
USDA hardiness
Documented minimum 6a; 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.
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 25369, 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 Landscaping: plant in Zone 2-3 or beyond [OSU B921 source-category siting] (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.
