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The Loropetalum chinensis file for loropetalum chinensis joins on list recommendation. On loropetalum chinensis, limited evidence sits across that chinensis row. The facts stay as separate jobs on Loropetalum chinensis. on list and limited evidence stay split for loropetalum chinensis.
On loropetalum chinensis, Loropetalum chinensis also carries 1 ecological invasive reports for chinensis.
Use evidence on loropetalum chinensis for chinensis. Use related plants on loropetalum chinensis for chinensis. The jumps stay with loropetalum chinensis on Loropetalum chinensis.
Form
shrub
Mature height
~4 ft
Light
Full sun
Rated in
Catalonia, Spain; Global; eastern US
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Only uncertain or inapplicable hardiness rows are cited; no primary zone is projected.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
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.
Plant hardiness evidence
These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA
Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value
is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping
statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.
Source location: Cold Hardiness Zone field in the recovered selector record.
Not used for comparison: The recovered selector prints one Cold Hardiness Zone value but does not define it as a minimum threshold or a one-zone range.
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.
Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector: Landscape Zone 2 — 5–10 ft from the structure; maintained lawn or fuel breaks, with easily ignited evergreens avoided [Fire Performance Plant Selector landscape zone] (mid-scale rating)
Guía de pirojardinería: suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone [girona-2020-iuf-25m-suitability] (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.
Loropetalum chinense is rated “RECOMENDADA” 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.
FLAMITS record 19846; Sustainability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device thermal analyzer; site Jia2022-1; sampling ND. Primary study Jia2022: Jia, J., Huang, R., & Wang, Y. (2022). Study on the Combustion Characteristics of Mountain Forest Vegetation. Forests, 13, 1443.
