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New Mexico privet
Forestiera neomexicana
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- No test or rating condition is normalized.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 2 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Arizona above 3,000 feet / interior Southwest; Georgetown, Texas; New Mexico; Yavapai County, Arizona
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 4 scopes across 4 cited fire sources
- FireWise Plant List for New Mexico · Official scoped edition
- Firewise Plant Guide · Official scoped edition
- FIREWISE Plant Materials for 3,000 ft. and Higher Elevations (AZ1289) · Official scoped edition
- Fire-Resistant and Fire-Prone Plants Common to Yavapai County (Bulletin 34) · Official scoped edition
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, OK, TX, UT.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- No hardiness value is normalized.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
- Legal-list status
- Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
- Seed-list status
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- Reported invasive here
- No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
- Broader regional context
- Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
- Federal context
- Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.
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.
- Form
- tree
- Grows in
- AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, OK, TX, UT
- Rated in
- Arizona above 3,000 feet / interior Southwest; Georgetown, Texas; New Mexico; Yavapai County, Arizona
- Family
- Oleaceae
- Evidence
- 4 cited sources
Where its sources say to plant it
- Firewise Plant Guide: Shrubs
- FireWise Plant List for New Mexico: PDF page 3, Trees and Large Shrubs, p3-r13
The evidence
Recommends (4)
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FIREWISE Plant Materials for 3,000 ft. and Higher Elevations (AZ1289)
“listed FIREWISE plant material”
Listed among fire-resistant plant materials for Arizona above 3,000 feet.
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Fire-Resistant and Fire-Prone Plants Common to Yavapai County (Bulletin 34)
“Fire-Resistant Plants”
Listed as New Mexico privet — Forestiera neomexicana. The bulletin says fire-resistant plants tend to resist ignition when irrigated and maintained, while fire-prone plants may ignite readily and burn intensely.
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“low”
The table rates Elbowbush — Forestiera pubescens low for flammability hazard, defined as the ease a plant can burn at high temperatures for a prolonged time.
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FireWise Plant List for New Mexico
“FireWise Plant List for New Mexico”
Listed as Forestiera neomexicana (New Mexico Olive) in Trees and Large Shrubs. Printed elevation cells: 4,000 ft=Y, 5,000 ft=Y, 6,000 ft=Y, 7,000 ft=Y, 8,000 ft=?, 9,000+ ft=N. Water need: L-M; sun/shade: S/PS; mature height: 10-20’; approximate bloom: n/a.
