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Rose mallow
Hibiscus moscheutos
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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
- Austin, Texas; NC; North Carolina; North Carolina / southeastern US
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 2 scopes across 2 cited fire sources
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in AL, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WV.
- Native range
- The legacy compatibility field lists NC in native range; its field-level source was not retained.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- USDA hardiness
- Only uncertain or inapplicable hardiness rows are cited; no primary zone is projected.
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
- perennial
- USDA hardiness
- Only uncertain or inapplicable source rows; no primary zone projected
- Mature height
- ~6.6 ft
- Water need
- high
- Legacy native field
- NC · field-level source not retained
- Grows in
- AL, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN +23
- Rated in
- Austin, Texas; NC; North Carolina; North Carolina / southeastern US
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Evidence
- 4 cited sources
Plant hardiness evidence
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USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics
Minimum 5b · no upper limit documented
Where its sources say to plant it
- North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox: muenchhusia-moscheutos
- Firewise Landscaping: Fire resistance
The evidence
Recommends (1)
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Firewise Landscaping (Travis County)
“Fire resistance”
Named as an example under Fire resistance: Woolly Rose-mallow — Hibiscus lasiocarpos.
Mid-scale / conditional (3)
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Firewise Landscaping in North Carolina (E05-44596)
“Medium flammability rating”
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Fire-Resistant Landscaping in North Carolina (AG-874)
“medium flammability”
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North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox — plant profiles and flammability ratings
“medium flammability”
NC Toolbox facet capture lists "Muenchhusia moscheutos" under the medium flammability tag. Exact GBIF reconciliation: "Muenchhusia moscheutos" → "Hibiscus moscheutos".
