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Native and introduced distributions are both documented in range evidence for wood strawberry, Fragaria vesca. The ecological channel separately reports widespread-invasive status in Hawaii, so that geography should not be mistaken for a fire recommendation.
The single directional fire source prints a low hazard estimate for the whole plant. Its own notes call the rating rough rather than trial-based and warn that plants turning brown can become high hazards. The record therefore remains a candidate with limited evidence in the evidence table.
Comparisons help place this groundcover beside other records, while the genus index keeps other members of the genus available without treating sibling citations as support for wood strawberry.
Form
groundcover
Rated in
Global; Lake Tahoe Basin, Nevada and California
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Nevada Division of Forestry and University of Nevada Cooperative Extension publish Bulletin 06-01 for the Lake Tahoe Basin and vicinity. FireApproved publishes 83 exact rated owners as basin context across Nevada and California. Rough estimates are not statewide or site ratings.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in CA, NV.
Native range
Current cited native range in AZ, CA, CO, CT, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, SD, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
Introduced / established
3 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
1 ecological invasive report.
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.
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.
Home Landscaping Guide for Lake Tahoe and Vicinity: Fire Hazard column: low [tahoe-guide-2006] (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.
Table 1's Fire Hazard column prints “low” for this taxon. The guide calls the rating a rough estimate of potential flammability, not a result of scientific trials. Its footnote says plants that turn brown often become high fire hazards and tells readers to mow grasses and forbs when they begin to turn brown.
Listed without a rating (12)Corroboration (12 rows from 1 source)
12 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
Primary study Wesolowski2003: Weso?owski, M., & Konieczynski, P. (2003). Thermal decomposition and elemental composition of medicinal plant materialsLeaves and flowers Principal component analysis of the results. Thermochimica Acta, 397, 171180.
Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device thermal analyzer; site Wesolowski2003-1; sampling ND.
