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Dusty Miller
Senecio cineraria
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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
- British Columbia; Yavapai County, Arizona; western WA
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 2 scopes across 2 cited fire sources
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in AL, AZ, CA, MD, NY, OR, UT.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- 1 sourced range or established record; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
- USDA hardiness
- No hardiness value is normalized.
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
- perennial
- Grows in
- AL, AZ, CA, MD, NY, OR, UT
- Rated in
- British Columbia; Yavapai County, Arizona; western WA
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Evidence
- 3 cited sources
The evidence
Recommends (3)
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FireSmart BC Plant Program — fire-resistant plant chart
“FireSmart-approved fire-resistant plant”
Flagged by FireSmart BC as needing more research.
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Firewise Plants for the Puget Sound Basin
“Fire-resistant Landscape Plants”
Listed in the source's Groundcovers — Non-succulents table as Senecio cineraria (Dusty miller).
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Fire-Resistant and Fire-Prone Plants Common to Yavapai County (Bulletin 34)
“Fire-Resistant Plants”
Listed as Dusty Miller — Senecio cineraria. The bulletin says fire-resistant plants tend to resist ignition when irrigated and maintained, while fire-prone plants may ignite readily and burn intensely.