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Plumbago auriculata
Plumbago capensis
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- 1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 2 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Catalonia, Spain; Georgetown, Texas; Marin County, California; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 2 scopes across 2 cited fire sources
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in CA, FL, HI, LA, PR, VI.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- 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
- 2 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
- vine
- Grows in
- CA, FL, HI, LA, PR, VI
- Rated in
- Catalonia, Spain; Georgetown, Texas; Marin County, California; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
- Family
- Plumbaginaceae
- Evidence
- 4 cited sources
Conditions in the fire evidence
Where its sources say to plant it
- Guía de pirojardinería: suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone
- Firewise Plant Guide: Perennials
The evidence
Recommends (4)
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Jardinería de baja inflamabilidad para las zonas de interfaz urbano-forestal
“recommended low-flammability species (climbers, garden column)”
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Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County
“listed as fire-resistant”
Fire Safe Marin lists this taxon among fire-resistant plants common to Marin County.
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“RECOMENDADA”
Plumbago auriculata 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.
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“low”
The table rates Plumbago — Plumbago auriculata low for flammability hazard, defined as the ease a plant can burn at high temperatures for a prolonged time.