Current native
13
exact source areas
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Plum, Mexican
Prunus mexicana
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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
- 2 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Austin, Texas; Georgetown, Texas
- 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 AL, AR, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, NC, NE, OH, OK, SC, SD, TN, TX, WI.
- Native range
- Current cited native range in AL, AR, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, OK, TN, TX.
- 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.
- Form
- tree
- Current cited native range
- AL, AR, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, OK, TN, TX
- Grows in
- AL, AR, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY +12
- Rated in
- Austin, Texas; Georgetown, Texas
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Evidence
- 2 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 introduced
0
exact source areas
Qualified
0
doubtful or extinct source rows
13 native source areas
- Alabama (AL)
- Arkansas (AR)
- Iowa (IA)
- Illinois (IL)
- Indiana (IN)
- Kansas (KS)
- Kentucky (KY)
- Louisiana (LA)
- Missouri (MO)
- Mississippi (MS)
- Oklahoma (OK)
- Tennessee (TN)
- Texas (TX)
Where its sources say to plant it
- Firewise Landscaping: Small trees/Large Shrubs
- Firewise Plant Guide: Small Trees
The evidence
Recommends (1)
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“low”
The table rates Plum, Mexican — Prunus mexicana low for flammability hazard, defined as the ease a plant can burn at high temperatures for a prolonged time.
Avoids (1)
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Firewise Landscaping (Travis County)
“Plants to Avoid for Zone 1 (within 30′ of Structure)”
Listed as Plum, Mexican — Prunus Mexicana. The page says Zone 1 entries should be restricted to zones 2 or 3; all-zone entries are highly flammable due to volatile oils or growth habit.
