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Aster
Every rated Aster record is fire-resistant — 4 of 9 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 9 records carrying 27 evidence rows from 12 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Aster Aster spp. Fire-resistant Consensus 6 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
3 species
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Smooth Aster Fire-resistant Aster laevis -
Porter Aster Fire-resistant Aster porteri -
Swamp Aster Fire-resistant Aster puniceus
Awaiting evidence
5 species
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Aster Awaiting evidence Aster curtisii -
New England aster Awaiting evidence Aster novae-angliae -
New York aster Awaiting evidence Aster novi-belgii -
Heart-leaved aster Awaiting evidence Aster divaricatus -
White heath aster Awaiting evidence Aster pilosus
About Aster
Corpus context. Aster is the directory's #67 largest of 550 genus groups: 9 records carrying 27 evidence rows from 12 cited sources, recorded as perennial , hardy across USDA zones 5–8. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Aster: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.