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The Pteridium file for pteridium joins keep away recommendation. On pteridium, limited evidence sits across that pteridium row. The facts stay as separate jobs on Pteridium. avoid and limited evidence stay split for pteridium.

On pteridium, Pteridium also carries genus rank umbrella record for pteridium. On pteridium, Pteridium also carries same form alternatives for pteridium.

Use evidence on pteridium for pteridium. The jumps stay with pteridium on Pteridium. On pteridium, pteridium holds avoid beside limited evidence in the pteridium table for Pteridium. On pteridium, pteridium holds avoid beside limited evidence in the pteridium table for Pteridium.

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Form
perennial
Region
United Kingdom
Rated in
Global; Mainland Portugal
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Highly flammable — location does not change the cited classification.
Placement evidence
1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
Global; Mainland Portugal

2. Why this plant is relevant here

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

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.

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.

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.

Avoids (1)

Listed without a rating (2)
Corroboration (2 rows from 1 source)
  • FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

    2 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Belcher2017: Belcher, C. M., & Hudspith, V. A. (2017). Changes to Cretaceous surface fire behaviour influenced the spread of the early angiosperms. New Phytologist, 213, 1521-1532.

      Shared row context: plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device calorimeter; site Belcher2017-1; sampling .

      • “time to flaming (s): 3”

        FLAMITS record 15837; Ignitability measurement.

      • “calorific value (kcal/kg): 3035.73”

        FLAMITS record 15844; Combustibility measurement.

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