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Phlox spp. (accepted: Phlox) · Polemoniaceae · all Phlox records

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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: Georgia; Louisiana; Ohio / Midwest; Oregon (Willamette Valley); Texas
Maintenance: No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.

Typed publication scope: 5 scopes across 5 cited fire sources

Firewise Landscaping (Hammond Research Station) · Official scoped edition
- LA; partial normalized coverage · 2008-12-02
  LSU AgCenter calls these 31 ornamentals commonly used in Louisiana and recommended for Louisiana firewise landscaping efforts. FireApproved publishes 31 exact source owners, mostly at the source's genus grain. Undocumented curation remains corroborative and is not site suitability.
Firewise Landscaping (OSU Extension Bulletin 921) · Official scoped edition
- OH; partial normalized coverage · 2006-03-01
  Ohio State University Extension Bulletin 921 is an Ohio publication that describes Ohio fire seasons and landscape conditions and labels nativity to Ohio. FireApproved publishes 352 exact source-owning plant records from its eight rated tables. This historical publication scope does not assert current extension endorsement or that a listed plant suits every Ohio site.
Fire-resistant Landscape Plants for the Willamette Valley (EM 9103) · Official scoped edition
- Willamette Valley (OR footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2015-02-01
  OSU Extension says EM 9103 highlights fire-resistant plants that thrive under Willamette Valley growing conditions. FireApproved publishes 172 exact owners only as valley context. The guide shares the PNW 590 lineage and is not a second independent vote or statewide site clearance.
Firewise Landscaping in Texas: The Right Plant for the Right Place · Official scoped edition
- TX; partial normalized coverage · 2012-10-08
  Texas A&M Forest Service says the guide's landscape elements apply across Texas and at all scales. FireApproved publishes ten exact genus owners from its placement-band examples and holds Primrose and Bluebells rather than guessing taxa. The examples are not a complete Texas plant palette.
Firescaping: Wildfire-Resistant Landscaping in Georgia · Official scoped edition
- GA; partial normalized coverage
  UGA Warnell's WSFNR-20-96A is explicitly firescaping guidance for Georgia. FireApproved publishes the five exact genus owners named in its Immediate Zone examples while retaining the source's maintenance and quantity conditions. This is partial example coverage, not a statewide planting list.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: Documented in GA, OH.
Native range: The legacy compatibility field lists OH 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: No hardiness value is normalized.

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.

Phlox (Phlox spp.) — Photo: (c) Tom Scavo, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

Form: perennial
Legacy native field: OH · field-level source not retained
Grows in: GA, OH
Rated in: Georgia; Louisiana; Ohio / Midwest; Oregon (Willamette Valley) +1
Family: Polemoniaceae
Evidence: 5 cited sources

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.

Firewise Landscaping in Texas: The Right Plant for the Ri…: Acceptable in first 10 feet [tamfs-defensible-space] (with its recommendation)
Fire-resistant Landscape Plants for the Willamette Valley: Phlox profile (PDF page 77) [osu-em-9103-profile] (with its recommendation)
Firescaping: Wildfire-Resistant Landscaping in Georgia: Immediate Zone (0–5 feet from structure) [uga-firescaping-zones] (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.

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Phlox spp. (Phlox). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/phlox/. Last verified 2026-08-23.