Current native
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exact source areas
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Sugar cane
Saccharum officinarum
Your local evidence lens
Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
A genus split is not a placement verdict. Set a ZIP to read the local documented split.
1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Fire-resistant — 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; New Zealand
- 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, LA, MS, PR, TX, VI.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- 8 sourced range or established records; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
- USDA hardiness
- Documented minimum 8b; 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
- grass
- USDA hardiness
- Minimum 8b; upper limit not documented
- Mature height
- ~12 ft
- Water need
- moderate
- Grows in
- AL, FL, LA, MS, PR, TX, VI
- Rated in
- Global; New Zealand
- Family
- Poaceae
- Evidence
- 4 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
7
exact source areas
Qualified
0
doubtful or extinct source rows
7 introduced source areas
- Alabama (AL)
- Florida (FL)
- Hawaii (HI)
- Louisiana (LA)
- Mississippi (MS)
- Puerto Rico (PR)
- Texas (TX)
Plant hardiness evidence
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USDA PLANTS Database — Plant Characteristics
Minimum 8b · no upper limit documented
The evidence
Recommends (1)
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Low Flammability Plants directory
“Very low flammability”
Very low flammability classification.
Listed without a rating (3)
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FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
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“maximum flame temperature (°C): 476.04”
FLAMITS record 16321; 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.
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“burning duration (s): 28.4”
FLAMITS record 16322; 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.
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“estimated burnt biomass (%): 9”
FLAMITS record 16323; 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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