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Salvia coccinea presents a native-versus-introduced split in range evidence. Those two geographic relations lead the species profile and remain visibly distinct. The range account retains both relations without treating one as the species' only distribution.
One ecological invasive report accompanies the range account. The fire-source set is separately marked limited evidence in the evidence table.
The cited fire entries do not absorb the ecological report or either side of the distribution split. This structure keeps geography, ecological status, and fire-source depth independently inspectable without turning one channel into evidence for another.
Form
perennial
Rated in
Georgetown, Texas
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Sun City Texas, Georgetown (TX footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2015-01-14
The guide is authored for the Sun City Texas community in Georgetown. FireApproved publishes 142 exact owners only as community-level context. It is an archived HOA exhibit with unknown rating lineage, not a current statewide Texas source or an independent Tier 1 determination.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in AL, FL, GA, HI, LA, MS, OH, PR, SC, TX, VI.
Native range
Current cited native range in AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, PR, SC, TX.
Introduced / established
3 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
1 ecological invasive report.
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.
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.
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.
Firewise Plant Guide: Perennials [Sun City plant-table sections] (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.
The table rates Sage, Tropical — Salvia coccinea low for flammability hazard, defined as the ease a plant can burn at high temperatures for a prolonged time.
