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Myrica cerifera

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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: 0 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Global
Maintenance: No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: Documented in AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, HI, LA, MD, MS, NC, NJ, OK, PR, SC, TX, VA, WV.
Native range: Current cited native range in AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, LA, MD, MS, NC, NJ, OK, PR, SC, TX, VA.
Introduced / established: 2 sourced range or established records; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness: Documented minimum 6b; 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: 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: shrub
USDA hardiness: Minimum 6b; upper limit not documented
Mature height: ~10 ft
Water need: high
Current cited native range: AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, LA, MD, MS, NC, NJ, OK, PR, SC, TX, VA
Grows in: AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, HI, LA, MD +9
Rated in: Global
Family: Myricaceae
Evidence: 4 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 native

15

exact source areas

Current introduced

2

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

15 native source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04

Alabama (AL)
Arkansas (AR)
Delaware (DE)
Florida (FL)
Georgia (GA)
Louisiana (LA)
Maryland (MD)
Mississippi (MS)
North Carolina (NC)
New Jersey (NJ)
Oklahoma (OK)
Puerto Rico (PR)
South Carolina (SC)
Texas (TX)
Virginia (VA)

2 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04

Hawaii (HI)
Illinois (IL)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

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.

Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector · record myrica-cerifera · 2016-wayback · as of 2026-08-26

Source prints 6 · single-value meaning unresolved · whole zone precision · source stated

Source taxon: Myrica cerifera · exact match.

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.
USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics · record MOCE2 · PLANTS Help Document 2022; characteristics cache retrieved 2026-08-23 · as of 2026-08-26

Minimum 6b · no upper limit documented · half zone precision · derived containing band

Exact source measurement: -3°F; mapped only to its containing half-zone.

Source taxon: Myrica cerifera · source identifier match.

Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 70717, Temperature, Minimum (°F).

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.

Listed without a rating (4)

FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

4 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4775.33988” · score 4775.33988 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 18006; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device flat flame burner; site Safdari2018-1; sampling ND. Primary study Safdari2018: Safdari, M.-S., Rahmati, M., Amini, E., Howarth, J. E., Berryhill, J. P., Dietenberger, M., Fletcher, T. H. (2018). Characterization of pyrolysis products from fast pyrolysis of live and dead vegetation native to the Southern United States. Fuel, 229, 151166.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 5105.16816” · score 5105.16816 (FLAMITS — calorific value (kcal/kg))
  
  FLAMITS record 18020; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device flat flame burner; site Safdari2018-1; sampling ND. Primary study Safdari2018: Safdari, M.-S., Rahmati, M., Amini, E., Howarth, J. E., Berryhill, J. P., Dietenberger, M., Fletcher, T. H. (2018). Characterization of pyrolysis products from fast pyrolysis of live and dead vegetation native to the Southern United States. Fuel, 229, 151166.
- “mass loss rate (g/s): 0.0245” · score 0.0245 (FLAMITS — mass loss rate (g/s))
  
  FLAMITS record 18258; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device flat flame burner; site Pickett2010-3; sampling ND. Primary study Pickett2010: Pickett, B. M., Isackson, C., Wunder, R., Fletcher, T. H., Butler, B. W., & Weise, D. R. (2010). Experimental measurements during combustion of moist individual foliage samples. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 153-162 .
- “mass loss rate (g/s): 0.023” · score 0.023 (FLAMITS — mass loss rate (g/s))
  
  FLAMITS record 18259; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device flat flame burner; site Pickett2010-3; sampling ND. Primary study Pickett2010: Pickett, B. M., Isackson, C., Wunder, R., Fletcher, T. H., Butler, B. W., & Weise, D. R. (2010). Experimental measurements during combustion of moist individual foliage samples. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 153-162 .

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