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Quercus laevis

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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: 0 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Global
Maintenance: No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: Documented in AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, VA.
Native range: Current cited native range in AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, VA.
Introduced / established: No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
USDA hardiness: Documented minimum 6b; 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.

Form: tree
USDA hardiness: Minimum 6b; upper limit not documented
Mature height: ~40 ft
Water need: moderate
Current cited native range: AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, VA
Grows in: AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, VA
Rated in: Global
Family: Fagaceae
Evidence: 9 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

8

exact source areas

Current introduced

0

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

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

Alabama (AL)
Florida (FL)
Georgia (GA)
Louisiana (LA)
Mississippi (MS)
North Carolina (NC)
South Carolina (SC)
Virginia (VA)

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.

USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics · record QULA2 · PLANTS Help Document 2022; characteristics cache retrieved 2026-08-23 · as of 2026-08-26

Minimum 6b · no upper limit documented · half zone precision · derived containing band

Exact source measurement: -3°F; mapped only to its containing half-zone.

Source taxon: Quercus laevis · source identifier match.

Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 70336, Temperature, Minimum (°F).

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.

Listed without a rating (9)

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

9 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “flame height (cm): 81.4” · score 81.4 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 5450; Combustibility measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Kane2008-1; sampling november and december. Primary study Kane2008: Kane, J. M., Varner, J. M., & Hiers, J. K. (2008). The burning characteristics of southeastern oaks: Discriminating fire facilitators from fire impeders. Forest Ecology and Management, 256, 2039-2045.
- “flaming duration (s): 50.4” · score 50.4 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 5458; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Kane2008-1; sampling november and december. Primary study Kane2008: Kane, J. M., Varner, J. M., & Hiers, J. K. (2008). The burning characteristics of southeastern oaks: Discriminating fire facilitators from fire impeders. Forest Ecology and Management, 256, 2039-2045.
- “smouldering duration (s): 350.7” · score 350.7 (FLAMITS — smouldering duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 5466; Sustainability measurement; plant part litter; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Kane2008-1; sampling november and december. Primary study Kane2008: Kane, J. M., Varner, J. M., & Hiers, J. K. (2008). The burning characteristics of southeastern oaks: Discriminating fire facilitators from fire impeders. Forest Ecology and Management, 256, 2039-2045.
- “mass loss rate (g/s): 0.36” · score 0.36 (FLAMITS — mass loss rate (g/s))
  
  FLAMITS record 5474; Combustibility measurement; plant part litter; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Kane2008-1; sampling november and december. Primary study Kane2008: Kane, J. M., Varner, J. M., & Hiers, J. K. (2008). The burning characteristics of southeastern oaks: Discriminating fire facilitators from fire impeders. Forest Ecology and Management, 256, 2039-2045.
- “burnt biomass (%): 90.2” · score 90.2 (FLAMITS — burnt biomass (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 5482; Consumability measurement; plant part litter; fuel live; predrying no; device burning bench; site Kane2008-1; sampling november and december. Primary study Kane2008: Kane, J. M., Varner, J. M., & Hiers, J. K. (2008). The burning characteristics of southeastern oaks: Discriminating fire facilitators from fire impeders. Forest Ecology and Management, 256, 2039-2045.
- “flame height (cm): 5.49” · score 5.49 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 9223; Combustibility measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device burning bench; site Mola2014-1; sampling may and june. Primary study Mola2014: Mola, J. M., Varner, J. M., Jules, E. S., & Spector, T. (2014). Altered Community Flammability in Florida's Apalachicola Ravines and Implications for the Persistence of the Endangered Conifer Torreya taxifolia. Plos One, 9, 8.
- “flaming duration (s): 50.4” · score 50.4 (FLAMITS — flaming duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 9240; Sustainability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device burning bench; site Mola2014-1; sampling may and june. Primary study Mola2014: Mola, J. M., Varner, J. M., Jules, E. S., & Spector, T. (2014). Altered Community Flammability in Florida's Apalachicola Ravines and Implications for the Persistence of the Endangered Conifer Torreya taxifolia. Plos One, 9, 8.
- “burnt biomass (%): 99.1” · score 99.1 (FLAMITS — burnt biomass (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 9257; Consumability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device burning bench; site Mola2014-1; sampling may and june. Primary study Mola2014: Mola, J. M., Varner, J. M., Jules, E. S., & Spector, T. (2014). Altered Community Flammability in Florida's Apalachicola Ravines and Implications for the Persistence of the Endangered Conifer Torreya taxifolia. Plos One, 9, 8.
- “time to smouldering (s): 350.7” · score 350.7 (FLAMITS — time to smouldering (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 9274; Ignitability measurement; plant part litter; fuel all; predrying no; device burning bench; site Mola2014-1; sampling may and june. Primary study Mola2014: Mola, J. M., Varner, J. M., Jules, E. S., & Spector, T. (2014). Altered Community Flammability in Florida's Apalachicola Ravines and Implications for the Persistence of the Endangered Conifer Torreya taxifolia. Plos One, 9, 8.

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