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Polygonum binds keep away recommendation. On polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica, limited evidence is the next polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica fact. The citations do not collapse — Polygonum. avoid does not replace limited evidence on polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica.
On polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica, Polygonum also carries Combustion characteristics of north-eastern for polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica. On polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica, Polygonum also carries legal list for polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica. On polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica, Polygonum also carries cured test condition for polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica.
Use evidence on polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica for polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica. The citations remain on Polygonum for polygonum japonicum fallopia japonica.
Northeastern and mid-Atlantic study sites (ME, MD, MA, NY, VA footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2007-08-20
The authors collected foliage and twigs across study sites in Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia, then conditioned and tested the samples in a cone calorimeter. FireApproved publishes 37 exact source owners only as multi-state laboratory context. The source does not establish that every taxon was sampled in every named state, whole-plant behavior, landscape suitability, or state planting guidance.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in AK, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV.
Native range
Introduced / established
USDA hardiness
Only uncertain or inapplicable hardiness rows are cited; no primary zone is projected.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
3 legal-list records; the Place chip matches exact scope.
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
Broader regional context
Federal context
Plant-specific legal-list reviews (1)
These source-bound review receipts are separate from ecological invasive reports. A source or plant identity change invalidates a receipt.
OH · Legal-list scope unresolved. A genus, compound, hybrid, cultivar, abbreviated, exception-bearing, or otherwise unresolved source row could cover this plant, so no negative result is published. Authority: Ohio Department of Agriculture; scope: state; as of 2026-08-26.Official reference.Normalized source record.
Plant-specific state seed-list reviews (1)
These source-bound receipts answer only the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed-list question.
This answers only whether the plant identity appears in the July 2026 state noxious-weed seed sheet. It does not establish non-seed plant legal status, ecological-invasive status, nursery-sale rules, or unrestricted use.
NE · Seed-list name scope unresolved. A source scientific-name row or name variant could overlap this identity but did not satisfy strict exact same-rank publication, so no negative result is shown. Held source row: usda-ams-state-noxious-weed-seed-2026:NE:009.Official USDA seed requirements.Normalized source record.
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.
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 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.
Conditions in the fire evidence
These describe tested or rated plant material. They are not horticultural maintenance instructions.
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)
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.
FLAMITS record 2882; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Dibble2007-1; sampling ND. Primary study Dibble2007: Dibble, A. C., White, R. H., & Lebow, P. K. (2007). Combustion characteristics of north-eastern USA vegetation tested in the cone calorimeter: invasive versus non-invasive plants. International journal of wildland fire, 16, 426-443.
