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Pomegranate

Punica granatum · Lythraceae

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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; Global; Marin County, California; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean; eastern US
Maintenance: No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.

Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source

Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County · Official scoped edition
- Marin County (CA footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2019-01-01
  The publication is explicitly limited to plants common to Marin County. FireApproved publishes 104 exact owners as Marin regional context while retaining its placement, spacing, irrigation, and maintenance boundary. It is not statewide California guidance or parcel suitability.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: Documented in AL, AZ, CA, DC, DE, FL, LA, MD, NC, NJ, OH, PA, PR, TX, UT, VI, WV.
Native range: No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
Introduced / established: 6 sourced range or established records; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness: Documented minimum 5b; no upper limit is documented.

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.

Pomegranate (Punica granatum) — Photo: (c) Proteros, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.

Form: shrub
USDA hardiness: Minimum 5b; upper limit not documented
Mature height: ~8 ft
Light: Full sun
Water need: moderate
Grows in: AL, AZ, CA, DC, DE, FL, LA, MD +9
Rated in: Catalonia, Spain; Global; Marin County, California; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean +1
Family: Lythraceae
Evidence: 15 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 native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

5

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

5 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04

Alabama (AL)
Arkansas (AR)
California (CA)
Puerto Rico (PR)
Texas (TX)

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.

Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector · record punica-granatum · 2016-wayback · as of 2026-08-26

Source prints 6 · single-value meaning unresolved · whole zone precision · source stated

Source taxon: Punica granatum · 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.
USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics · record PUGR2 · PLANTS Help Document 2022; characteristics cache retrieved 2026-08-23 · as of 2026-08-26

Minimum 5b · no upper limit documented · half zone precision · derived containing band

Exact source measurement: -13°F; mapped only to its containing half-zone.

Source taxon: Punica granatum · source identifier match.

Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 86583, Temperature, Minimum (°F).

Conditions in the fire evidence

These describe tested or rated plant material. They are not horticultural maintenance instructions.

irrigated: Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County evidence row

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.

Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector: Landscape Zone 2 — 5–10 ft from the structure; maintained lawn or fuel breaks, with easily ignited evergreens avoided [Fire Performance Plant Selector landscape zone] (mid-scale rating)
Guía de pirojardinería: suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone [girona-2020-iuf-25m-suitability] (with its recommendation)

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.

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

Eastern United States Fire Performance Plant Selector — USDA Forest Service Northeastern Area S&PF + state Firewise programs (WV, OH, PA, DE, DC, MD, NJ) · 2016-wayback · original source Primary evidence Keyed curation lineage: ufifas-srs-tree

“AT RISK Firewise (3)”

Source of pomegranate fruit also available in double orange flower forms.

Listed without a rating (11)

FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

11 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “maximum flame temperature (°C): 545.68” · score 545.68 (FLAMITS — maximum flame temperature (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 5599; Combustibility measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Kauf2015-1; sampling may, july, september and october. Primary study Kauf2015: Kauf, Z., Fangmeier, A., Rosavec, R., & panjol, . (2015). Seasonal and local differences in leaf litter flammability of six Mediterranean tree species. environmental management, 55, 687-701.
- “temperature at flaming (°C): 418” · score 418 (FLAMITS — temperature at flaming (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 5605; Ignitability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Kauf2015-1; sampling may, july, september and october. Primary study Kauf2015: Kauf, Z., Fangmeier, A., Rosavec, R., & panjol, . (2015). Seasonal and local differences in leaf litter flammability of six Mediterranean tree species. environmental management, 55, 687-701.
- “time to flaming (s): 11.49” · score 11.49 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 5618; Ignitability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Kauf2015-1; sampling may, july, september and october. Primary study Kauf2015: Kauf, Z., Fangmeier, A., Rosavec, R., & panjol, . (2015). Seasonal and local differences in leaf litter flammability of six Mediterranean tree species. environmental management, 55, 687-701.
- “time to flaming (s): 12.69” · score 12.69 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 5619; Ignitability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Kauf2015-3; sampling may, july, september and october. Primary study Kauf2015: Kauf, Z., Fangmeier, A., Rosavec, R., & panjol, . (2015). Seasonal and local differences in leaf litter flammability of six Mediterranean tree species. environmental management, 55, 687-701.
- “flaming duration (s): 24.02” · score 24.02 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 5634; Sustainability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Kauf2015-1; sampling may, july, september and october. Primary study Kauf2015: Kauf, Z., Fangmeier, A., Rosavec, R., & panjol, . (2015). Seasonal and local differences in leaf litter flammability of six Mediterranean tree species. environmental management, 55, 687-701.
- “flaming duration (s): 23.26” · score 23.26 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 5635; Sustainability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Kauf2015-3; sampling may, july, september and october. Primary study Kauf2015: Kauf, Z., Fangmeier, A., Rosavec, R., & panjol, . (2015). Seasonal and local differences in leaf litter flammability of six Mediterranean tree species. environmental management, 55, 687-701.
- “burning duration (s): 35.19” · score 35.19 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 5650; Sustainability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Kauf2015-1; sampling may, july, september and october. Primary study Kauf2015: Kauf, Z., Fangmeier, A., Rosavec, R., & panjol, . (2015). Seasonal and local differences in leaf litter flammability of six Mediterranean tree species. environmental management, 55, 687-701.
- “burning duration (s): 35.49” · score 35.49 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 5651; Sustainability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Kauf2015-3; sampling may, july, september and october. Primary study Kauf2015: Kauf, Z., Fangmeier, A., Rosavec, R., & panjol, . (2015). Seasonal and local differences in leaf litter flammability of six Mediterranean tree species. environmental management, 55, 687-701.
- “maximum flame temperature (°C): 561.8833333” · score 561.8833333 (FLAMITS — maximum flame temperature (°C))
  
  FLAMITS record 16366; Combustibility measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022. Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.
- “burning duration (s): 6.878” · score 6.878 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 16367; Sustainability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022. Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.
- “estimated burnt biomass (%): 32.5” · score 32.5 (FLAMITS — estimated burnt biomass (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 16368; Consumability measurement; plant part branches; fuel all; predrying yes; device grill; site Pacheco2022-1; sampling october to november 2022. Primary study Pacheco2022: Pacheco, A. S., Goodman, H. D., Hankenson, L., Fisk, J. J., Ortiz, A., Marinace, H. M., ... Tng, D. Y. P. (2022). Fighting fire with food: Assessing the flammability of crop plant species for building fire resilient agroforestry systems. in review, preprint.

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Punica granatum (Pomegranate). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/punica-granatum/. Last verified 2026-08-23.