Lipia
Lippia nodiflora
Your local evidence lens
Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
A genus split is not a placement verdict. Set a ZIP to read the local documented split.
1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Highly flammable — 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
- California; Catalonia, Spain; Southern California
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, PR, SC, TX, UT, VA, VI.
- 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
- Documented minimum 5a; no upper limit is documented.
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
- 1 ecological invasive report; set a location to distinguish exact from regional context.
- 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
- groundcover
- USDA hardiness
- Minimum 5a; upper limit not documented
- Mature height
- ~0.2 ft
- Water need
- low
- Grows in
- AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI +19
- Rated in
- California; Catalonia, Spain; Southern California
- Family
- Verbenaceae
- Evidence
- 3 cited sources
Plant hardiness evidence
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USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics
Minimum 5a · no upper limit documented
Where its sources say to plant it
- Guía de pirojardinería: not suitable inside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone
- Defensible Space Landscaping in the Urban/Wildland Interf…: Chapter 4, Landscape Vegetation Database
The evidence
Recommends (2)
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“RECOMMENDED by 12 references for use in high fire risk areas.”
1997 Landscape Vegetation Database row: Phyla nodiflora (Lippia). Preserved UCFPL transcription marker: F12.
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Living More Safely in the Chaparral-Urban Interface
“High — Lippia”
Table 5 rates this low-growing southern California landscape entry by fuel volume, inherent plant flammability, and ease of fire spread.
Avoids (1)
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“DESACONSEJADA”
Lippia nodiflora is rated “DESACONSEJADA” by the guide's qualitative IUF garden-suitability method. The method assumes species-specific care and integrates fire evidence with fuel structure, maintenance, origin, invasiveness, and expert fire-service experience.
