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Alfalfa
Medicago sativa
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Fire-resistant — 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
- 3 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Great Basin; Great Basin / Intermountain West; Montana / Northern Rockies; New Zealand; Utah / Intermountain West; southern Idaho / Intermountain
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 3 scopes across 3 cited fire sources
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VI, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- 52 sourced range or established records; set a location to match them. 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
- 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
- 3 ecological invasive reports; 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
- perennial
- USDA hardiness
- Only uncertain or inapplicable source rows; no primary zone projected
- Mature height
- ~1.6 ft
- Water need
- high
- Grows in
- AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC +45
- Rated in
- Great Basin; Great Basin / Intermountain West; Montana / Northern Rockies; New Zealand +2
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Evidence
- 6 cited sources
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.
Current introduced
52
exact source areas
Qualified
0
doubtful or extinct source rows
52 introduced source areas
- Alaska (AK)
- Alabama (AL)
- Arkansas (AR)
- Arizona (AZ)
- California (CA)
- Colorado (CO)
- Connecticut (CT)
- District of Columbia (DC)
- Delaware (DE)
- Florida (FL)
- Georgia (GA)
- Hawaii (HI)
- Iowa (IA)
- Idaho (ID)
- Illinois (IL)
- Indiana (IN)
- Kansas (KS)
- Kentucky (KY)
- Louisiana (LA)
- Massachusetts (MA)
- Maryland (MD)
- Maine (ME)
- Michigan (MI)
- Minnesota (MN)
- Missouri (MO)
- Mississippi (MS)
- Montana (MT)
- North Carolina (NC)
- North Dakota (ND)
- Nebraska (NE)
- New Hampshire (NH)
- New Jersey (NJ)
- New Mexico (NM)
- Nevada (NV)
- New York (NY)
- Ohio (OH)
- Oklahoma (OK)
- Oregon (OR)
- Pennsylvania (PA)
- Puerto Rico (PR)
- Rhode I. (RI)
- South Carolina (SC)
- South Dakota (SD)
- Tennessee (TN)
- Texas (TX)
- Utah (UT)
- Virginia (VA)
- Vermont (VT)
- Washington (WA)
- Wisconsin (WI)
- West Virginia (WV)
- Wyoming (WY)
Plant hardiness evidence
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USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics
Minimum 3b · no upper limit documented
Where its sources say to plant it
- Fire Resistance of Plants Master Database: plantable at 10' from home
- Fuel Breaks to Reduce Large Wildfire Impacts in Sagebrush…: common plant material option for a managed greenstrip in sagebrush ecosystems
- Forage Kochia Helps Fight Range Fires: species used in a semiarid western rangeland greenstrip
The evidence
Recommends (6)
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Fire Resistance of Plants Master Database
“fire-resistance score 10 of 10”
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Low Flammability Plants directory
“Very low flammability”
Very low flammability classification.
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Firewise Plants for Utah Landscapes (NR/FF/002)
“listed as a firewise plant for Utah landscapes”
Source says the plant can be firewise when properly used and maintained.
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Fire-Resistant Plants for Montana Landscapes (MontGuide MT200101AG)
“listed fire-resistant”
Listed among fire-resistant plant species adapted to Montana.
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“Common plant material options for greenstrips.”
Appendix B row: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa). Origin: Introduced; lifeform: Forb; relative height: Tall; seedling vigor: Med.; longevity: Med.. Precipitation zone: 12-25 in; soil texture: fine and medium; seeds/lb: 200,000; single-species drill seeding rate: 5 lb/ac; seeding depth: 1/16-1/2 in. Recommended releases: Ranger, Ladak.
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Forage Kochia Helps Fight Range Fires
“Species frequently used in greenstrips.”
Table 1 row: Alfalfa — Medicago sativa L.. The article says these are species frequently used in greenstrips; it does not report a separate burn result for this row.