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Common smilax
Smilax aspera
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
- 1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- Catalonia, Spain; Global; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
- 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
- No state distribution is normalized.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- 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
- vine
- Region
- Spain; Valencia, Spain
- Rated in
- Catalonia, Spain; Global; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
- Family
- Smilacaceae
- Evidence
- 8 cited sources
Where its sources say to plant it
- Guía de pirojardinería: suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone
The evidence
Recommends (2)
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Jardinería de baja inflamabilidad para las zonas de interfaz urbano-forestal
“recommended low-flammability species (climbers, native/forest column)”
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“MUY RECOMENDADA”
Smilax aspera is rated “MUY RECOMENDADA” by the guide's qualitative IUF garden-suitability method. The method assumes species-specific care and integrates fire evidence with fuel structure, maintenance, origin, invasiveness, and expert fire-service experience.
Listed without a rating (6)
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FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database
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“temperature at flaming (°C): 566.67”
FLAMITS record 12142; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
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“flaming duration (s): 389.2”
FLAMITS record 12175; Sustainability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
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“time to smoke (s): 90”
FLAMITS record 12209; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
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“temperature at smoke (°C): 126.8”
FLAMITS record 12246; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
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“time to smouldering (s): 305.1”
FLAMITS record 12282; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
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“temperature at smouldering (°C): 389.4”
FLAMITS record 12318; Ignitability measurement; plant part leaves; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site Saura2010-1; sampling august. Primary study Saura2010: Saura-Mas, S., Paula, S., Pausas, J. G,. & Lloret, F. (2010). Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 783.
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