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California poppy (Eschscholzia spp.)
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California poppy

Eschscholzia spp. (accepted: Eschscholzia) · Papaveraceae · all Eschscholzia records · Wikipedia

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Eschscholzia is on-list in the evidence table. The opening states the computed direction without adding an editorial rating.

Its support is labeled limited evidence. Returning to the cited rows keeps the evidence strength beside the on-list result, where neither can be mistaken for the other.

This page remains a genus-rank umbrella record. The source table holds the claim at that printed rank, rather than carrying the direction onto every Eschscholzia species. The three accepted facts therefore remain distinct checks for the reader. This separation is the point of the compact scene.

Form
perennial
Rated in
Nevada / Great Basin; western WA
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Nevada / Great Basin; western WA
Typed publication scope: 2 scopes across 2 cited fire sources
  • Firewise Plants for the Puget Sound Basin · Official scoped edition
    • Puget Sound Basin (WA footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2011-01-01

      King County's current wildfire page links this list for the Puget Sound Basin. FireApproved publishes 82 exact source owners as basin context, not statewide Washington guidance or a site-specific recommendation.

  • A Compilation of Good Plant Choices for Nevada's High Fire Hazard Areas (SP-05-16) · Official scoped edition
    • NV; partial normalized coverage · 2005-01-01

      University of Nevada Cooperative Extension compiled plants suited to Nevada climate zones and reported favorably by at least two upstream firewise lists. FireApproved publishes 126 exact source owners at Nevada publication scope. The source explicitly makes no independent flammability determination, so these rows remain corroborative.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in NV.

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.

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.

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Corroboration (1 rows from 1 source)

Last verified 2026-08-24. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Eschscholzia spp. (California poppy). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/eschscholzia/. Last verified 2026-08-24.