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Pinus elliottii cites keep away recommendation on pinus elliottii. On pinus elliottii, 1 ecological invasive next to elliottii on Pinus elliottii. The facts answer different questions for pinus elliottii — Pinus elliottii. On pinus elliottii, avoid does not replace 1 ecological invasive for elliottii.
On pinus elliottii, Pinus elliottii also carries hardiness rows for elliottii. On pinus elliottii, Pinus elliottii also carries range split for elliottii. On pinus elliottii, Pinus elliottii also carries dead-material test condition for elliottii.
Use evidence on pinus elliottii for elliottii. The sourced rows remain on pinus elliottii.
Documented in AL, DC, DE, FL, GA, LA, MD, MS, NC, NJ, OH, PA, SC, TX, WV.
Native range
Current cited native range in AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, SC.
Introduced / established
1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Documented minimum 5a; no upper limit is documented.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
1 ecological invasive report.
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.
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.
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.
Source prints 7 · single-value meaning unresolved · whole zone precision · source stated
Source taxon: Pinus elliottii · 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.
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 4 — beyond 30 ft; outside the selector's recommendation area [Fire Performance Plant Selector landscape zone] (with its avoid rating)
Fire Resisting Garden Plants for the Urban Fringe and Rur…: remove from the Building Protection Zone; avoid in the Fuel Modified Zone [Texas Building Protection Zone] (with its avoid rating)
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.
34 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
Primary study Hough1969: Hough, W. A. (1969). Caloric Value of Some Forest Fuels of the Southern United States. Res. Note SE-120. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station.
FLAMITS record 5042; plant part leaves; sampling august.
Shared measurement context: plant part litter; sampling january.
“calorific value (kcal/kg): 5163”
FLAMITS record 5043.
“calorific value (kcal/kg): 5021”
FLAMITS record 5044.
“calorific value (kcal/kg): 4622”
FLAMITS record 5045.
Primary study Varner2021: Varner, J. M., Kane, J. M., Kreye, J. K., & Shearman, T. M. (2021). Litter Flammability of 50 Southeastern North American Tree Species: Evidence for Mesophication Gradients Across Multiple Ecosystems. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4, 727042. Primary-study method: freshly fallen litter was oven-dried at 50–60°C for at least 24 hours to constant mass; each trial used a 15 g dry litter fuelbed, with five to seven trials per species.
Shared row context: plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device burning bench; site Varner2021-1; sampling ND.
FLAMITS record 15758; Sustainability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying yes; device burning bench; site Varner2022-12; sampling ND. Primary study Varner2022: Varner, J. M., Shearman, T. M., Kane, J. M., Banwell, E., Jules, E., & Stambaugh, M. (2022). Understanding flammability and bark thickness in the genus Pinus using a phylogenetic approach. Scientific Reports, 12, 7384.
Primary study Nelson1986: Nelson Jr., R. M., & Adkins, C. W. (1986). Flame characteristics of wind-driven surface fires. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 16, 12931300.
Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; device burning bench; site Nelson1986-1; sampling ND.
