bigleaf aster

Eurybia macrophylla · Asteraceae · all Eurybia records · also called Large-Leaved Aster · Wikipedia

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Large-Leaved Aster computes to on-list on the evidence table. The Eurybia macrophylla pack is limited evidence, with 2 hardiness assertions grouped in hardiness evidence.

Range evidence, related plants, and the genus index offer three ways to place the record without enlarging it. The macrophylla introduction keeps listing, source depth, and temperature assertions in separate evidence roles. A distribution route or neighboring aster may aid comparison, but neither becomes an additional result within this limited fire pack. That separation treats placement as context, hardiness as temperature evidence, and the listing as the table's computed result.

Form: groundcover
Mature height: ~4.6 ft
Light: Part sun
Water need: moderate
Rated in: Global; northeastern Minnesota

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: 1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Global; northeastern Minnesota
Maintenance

Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source

Landscaping for Wildfire Defensible Space in Northeastern Minnesota (Firewise) · Official scoped edition
- Northeastern Minnesota (MN footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2017-01-01
  Dovetail applies the UF/IFAS flammability key to northeastern Minnesota natives and publishes placement for 38 exact source owners. FireApproved exposes those rows only as northeastern Minnesota regional context and preserves the 3-to-30-foot versus beyond-30-foot source placement.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: Documented in CT, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV.
Native range: Current cited native range in AL, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV.
Introduced / established
USDA hardiness: 2 applicable cited hardiness statements overlap but have different boundaries; compare each complete source row.

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.

Current native

27

exact source areas

Current introduced

0

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

27 native source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04

Alabama (AL)
Connecticut (CT)
District of Columbia (DC)
Delaware (DE)
Georgia (GA)
Iowa (IA)
Illinois (IL)
Indiana (IN)
Kentucky (KY)
Massachusetts (MA)
Maryland (MD)
Maine (ME)
Michigan (MI)
Minnesota (MN)
Missouri (MO)
North Carolina (NC)
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ)
New York (NY)
Ohio (OH)
Pennsylvania (PA)
Rhode I. (RI)
Tennessee (TN)
Virginia (VA)
Vermont (VT)
Wisconsin (WI)
West Virginia (WV)

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.

Landscaping for Wildfire Defensible Space in Northeastern Minnesota (Firewise) · record table-2-row-31 · 2017 · as of 2026-08-26

4–8 explicit range · whole zone precision · source stated

Source taxon: Eurybia macrophylla · exact match.

Source location: Table 2 row 31, Hardiness Zones column.
USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics · record EUMA27 · PLANTS Help Document 2022; characteristics cache retrieved 2026-08-23 · as of 2026-08-26

Minimum 4a · no upper limit documented · half zone precision · derived containing band

Exact source measurement: -28°F; mapped only to its containing half-zone.

Source taxon: Eurybia macrophylla · source identifier match.

Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 35511, 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.

Landscaping for Wildfire Defensible Space in Northeastern…: plantable 3-30 ft from a building [Dovetail Partners planting distance] (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.

Listed without a rating (2)

Corroboration (2 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

2 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- Primary study Hogenbirk1995: Hogenbirk, J.C., & Sarrazin-Delay, C.L. (1995). Using fuel characteristics to estimate plant ignitability for fire hazard reduction. Water Air Soil Pollut, 82, 161170.
  
  Shared row context: Combustibility measurement; plant part stems; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Hogenbirk1995-1; sampling june.
  - “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4423.9”
    
    FLAMITS record 4984; fuel dead.
  - “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4223.03”
    
    FLAMITS record 4993; fuel live.

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Eurybia macrophylla (Large-Leaved Aster). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/eurybia-macrophylla/. Last verified 2026-08-23.