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American red raspberry

Rubus idaeus · Rosaceae · all Rubus records · also called Raspberry · Wikipedia

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Form: shrub
Mature height: ~6 ft
Rated in: Global; New Zealand
Uses: fruit

On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence: Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions: Global; New Zealand
Maintenance

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: Documented in AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
Native range: Current cited native range in AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
Introduced / established: 2 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness: An exact source temperature is retained below the published zone scale; no zone is invented.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
Broader regional context
Federal context

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.

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

40

exact source areas

Current introduced

2

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

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

Alaska (AK)
Arizona (AZ)
California (CA)
Colorado (CO)
Connecticut (CT)
District of Columbia (DC)
Delaware (DE)
Iowa (IA)
Idaho (ID)
Illinois (IL)
Indiana (IN)
Massachusetts (MA)
Maryland (MD)
Maine (ME)
Michigan (MI)
Minnesota (MN)
Missouri (MO)
Montana (MT)
North Carolina (NC)
North Dakota (ND)
Nebraska (NE)
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ)
New Mexico (NM)
Nevada (NV)
New York (NY)
Ohio (OH)
Oklahoma (OK)
Oregon (OR)
Pennsylvania (PA)
Rhode I. (RI)
South Dakota (SD)
Tennessee (TN)
Utah (UT)
Virginia (VA)
Vermont (VT)
Washington (WA)
Wisconsin (WI)
West Virginia (WV)
Wyoming (WY)

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

Arkansas (AR)
Mississippi (MS)

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 RUID · PLANTS Help Document 2022; characteristics cache retrieved 2026-08-23 · as of 2026-08-26

Exact minimum -62°F · below the published zone scale · half zone precision · below published scale

Source taxon: Rubus idaeus · source identifier match.

Source location: PlantCharacteristics record 91260, 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.

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

Low Flammability Plants directory — Fire and Emergency New Zealand (plant flammability testing at Lincoln University) · 2026 · original source Primary evidence Lab-tested lineage: lincoln-nz-tree

“Moderate/high flammability”

Moderate/high flammability classification.

Listed without a rating (34)

Corroboration (34 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

34 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4710.04”
  
  FLAMITS record 3938; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying yes; device calorimeter; site Gillon1997-1; sampling june to september. Primary study Gillon1997: Gillon, D., Hernando, C., Valette, J.-C., & Joffre, R. (1997). Fast estimation of the calorific values of forest fuels by near infrared-reflectance spectroscopy. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 27, 760-765.
- Primary study Martin1989: Martín, E., & Miguel, L. (1989). Inflamabilidad y energía de las especies de sotobosque
  
  Shared row context: plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying yes; device epiradiator; site Martin1989-5.
  - Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement; sampling march.
    - “time to flaming (s): 8”
      
      FLAMITS record 7838.
    - “ignition frequency (%): 100”
      
      FLAMITS record 8233.
  - Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement; sampling april.
    - “time to flaming (s): 7”
      
      FLAMITS record 7839.
    - “ignition frequency (%): 47”
      
      FLAMITS record 8234.
  - Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement; sampling june.
    - “time to flaming (s): 60”
      
      FLAMITS record 7840.
    - “ignition frequency (%): 7”
      
      FLAMITS record 8235.
  - Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement; sampling july.
    - “time to flaming (s): 60”
      
      FLAMITS record 7841.
    - “ignition frequency (%): 36”
      
      FLAMITS record 8236.
  - Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement; sampling august.
    - “time to flaming (s): 8”
      
      FLAMITS record 7842.
    - “ignition frequency (%): 100”
      
      FLAMITS record 8237.
  - Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement; sampling september.
    - “time to flaming (s): 7”
      
      FLAMITS record 7843.
    - “ignition frequency (%): 100”
      
      FLAMITS record 8238.
  - Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement; sampling october.
    - “time to flaming (s): 13”
      
      FLAMITS record 7844.
    - “ignition frequency (%): 89”
      
      FLAMITS record 8239.
  - Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement; sampling november.
    - “time to flaming (s): 10”
      
      FLAMITS record 7845.
    - “ignition frequency (%): 93”
      
      FLAMITS record 8240.
  - Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement; sampling december.
    - “time to flaming (s): 12”
      
      FLAMITS record 7846.
    - “ignition frequency (%): 89”
      
      FLAMITS record 8241.
  - “calorific value (kcal/kg): 4648”
    
    FLAMITS record 7921; Combustibility measurement; sampling ND.
  - Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement; sampling ND.
    - “flammability value: 3”
      
      FLAMITS record 7971.
    - “flammability value: 0”
      
      FLAMITS record 7972.
- Primary study Wesolowski2003: Weso?owski, M., & Konieczynski, P. (2003). Thermal decomposition and elemental composition of medicinal plant materialsLeaves and flowers Principal component analysis of the results. Thermochimica Acta, 397, 171180.
  
  Shared row context: plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying yes; device thermal analyzer; site Wesolowski2003-1; sampling ND.
  - Shared measurement context: consumability measurement.
    - “burnt biomass (%): 7.5”
      
      FLAMITS record 18380.
    - “burnt biomass (%): 53.5”
      
      FLAMITS record 18407.
    - “burnt biomass (%): 33”
      
      FLAMITS record 18434.
  - Shared measurement context: Combustibility measurement.
    - “maximum flame temperature (°C): 70”
      
      FLAMITS record 18461.
    - “maximum flame temperature (°C): 250”
      
      FLAMITS record 18488.
    - “maximum flame temperature (°C): 390”
      
      FLAMITS record 18515.
    - “flame height (cm): 0.8”
      
      FLAMITS record 18542.
    - “flame height (cm): 2.9”
      
      FLAMITS record 18569.
    - “flame height (cm): 1.2”
      
      FLAMITS record 18596.
    - “maximum flame temperature (°C): 90”
      
      FLAMITS record 18623.
    - “maximum flame temperature (°C): 290”
      
      FLAMITS record 18650.
    - “maximum flame temperature (°C): 430”
      
      FLAMITS record 18677.

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Rubus idaeus (Raspberry). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/rubus-idaeus/. Last verified 2026-08-23.