{"id":"sorbus","license":"CC-BY-4.0","data":{"scientificName":"Sorbus spp.","commonNames":["Mountain Ash"],"taxonRank":"genus","acceptedName":"Sorbus","family":"Rosaceae","ids":{"gbifKey":3012146},"usdaZoneMin":"3a","usdaZoneMax":"7b","zoneSource":"osu-em-9103","states":["OR"],"hardinessAssertions":[{"minimum":"3","maximum":"7","interpretation":"explicit-range","precision":"whole-zone","zoneMapping":"source-stated","applicability":"applicable","source":"osu-em-9103","sourceTaxon":"Sorbus spp.","taxonMatch":"exact","sourcePlacement":"Mountain Ash profile (PDF page 176)","sourceVersion":"EM 9103, February 2015","asOf":"2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z"}],"plantForm":"tree","evidence":[{"source":"osu-em-9103","verdict":"recommend","verdictRaw":"fire-resistant plants that thrive in Willamette Valley growing conditions","claims":"The trees profile lists Sorbus spp. as Mountain Ash. The profile prints USDA Hardiness Zone: 3–7.","plantPart":"whole-plant","sourcePlacement":{"value":"Mountain Ash profile (PDF page 176)","scheme":"osu-em-9103-profile"},"edition":"EM 9103, February 2015","url":"https://www.canbyfire.org/files/074d2a9e3/Fire-Resistant-Plants_Willamette-Valley.pdf","documentDate":"2015-02-01T00:00:00.000Z","accessedOn":"2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z"},{"source":"uw-barnyards-firewise-2005","verdict":"recommend","verdictRaw":"Plants for a Firewise Landscape — Examples: mountain ash","claims":"The article prints this taxon as an example beneath its fire-resistant or Firewise-landscape guidance.","plantPart":"whole-plant","edition":"Barnyards & Backyards, Spring 2005","url":"https://www.uwyo.edu/barnbackyard/_files/documents/magazine/2005/spring/firewise-spring-barnyards-2005.pdf","documentDate":"2005-01-01T00:00:00.000Z","accessedOn":"2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z"},{"source":"greece-property-fire-regulation-2023","verdict":"avoid","verdictRaw":"ΙΔΙΑΙΤΕΡΑ ΕΥΦΛΕΚΤΑ ΕΝΔΗΜΙΚΑ ΦΥΤΑ — Sorbus sp.","claims":"The regulation prints this taxon in its table of particularly flammable endemic trees and shrubs.","plantPart":"whole-plant","sourcePlacement":{"value":"section 5.4.2, Table 2δi","scheme":"greece-2023-particularly-flammable"},"edition":"FEK B 3475/2023","url":"https://www.elinyae.gr/ethniki-nomothesia/ya-oik-ypendaoka5590420192023-fek-3475b-2452023","documentDate":"2023-05-24T00:00:00.000Z","accessedOn":"2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z"}],"flammabilityClass":"fire-resistant","ratingReason":"limited-evidence","recommendation":"on-list","author":"grayson-graham","reviewStatus":"draft","lastVerified":"2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z","reviewNotes":"EM 9103 profile identity matched exactly to GBIF backbone key 3012146."},"localAssessmentInputs":{"stateDistribution":["OR"],"nativeStates":[],"rangeAssertions":[{"relation":"documented-occurrence","geography":{"grain":"state","stateCodes":["OR"]},"provenance":"legacy-field"}],"usdaZoneMin":"3a","usdaZoneMax":"7b","hardinessAssertions":[{"minimum":"3","maximum":"7","interpretation":"explicit-range","precision":"whole-zone","zoneMapping":"source-stated","applicability":"applicable","source":"osu-em-9103","sourceTaxon":"Sorbus spp.","taxonMatch":"exact","sourcePlacement":"Mountain Ash profile (PDF page 176)","sourceVersion":"EM 9103, February 2015","asOf":"2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z","provenance":"cited"}],"hardinessSelection":{"status":"selected","assertion":{"minimum":"3","maximum":"7","interpretation":"explicit-range","precision":"whole-zone","zoneMapping":"source-stated","applicability":"applicable","source":"osu-em-9103","sourceTaxon":"Sorbus spp.","taxonMatch":"exact","sourcePlacement":"Mountain Ash profile (PDF page 176)","sourceVersion":"EM 9103, February 2015","asOf":"2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z","provenance":"cited"},"assertions":[{"minimum":"3","maximum":"7","interpretation":"explicit-range","precision":"whole-zone","zoneMapping":"source-stated","applicability":"applicable","source":"osu-em-9103","sourceTaxon":"Sorbus spp.","taxonMatch":"exact","sourcePlacement":"Mountain Ash profile (PDF page 176)","sourceVersion":"EM 9103, February 2015","asOf":"2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z","provenance":"cited"}]},"invasiveIn":[],"statusAssertions":[],"fireEvidenceClass":"fire-resistant","recommendation":"on-list","fireSourceScopes":[{"source":"osu-em-9103","sourceName":"Fire-resistant Landscape Plants for the Willamette Valley (EM 9103)","sourceUrl":"https://www.canbyfire.org/files/074d2a9e3/Fire-Resistant-Plants_Willamette-Valley.pdf","geography":{"grain":"aggregate-region","stateCodes":["OR"],"regions":["Willamette Valley"]},"completeness":"partial","reviewStatus":"reviewed","scope":"OSU Extension says EM 9103 highlights fire-resistant plants that thrive under Willamette Valley growing conditions. FireApproved publishes 172 exact owners only as valley context. The guide shares the PNW 590 lineage and is not a second independent vote or statewide site clearance.","sourceVersion":"OSU-EM-9103-2015-02","asOf":"2015-02-01T00:00:00.000Z"},{"source":"uw-barnyards-firewise-2005","sourceName":"Firewise Landscaping","sourceUrl":"https://www.uwyo.edu/barnbackyard/_files/documents/magazine/2005/spring/firewise-spring-barnyards-2005.pdf","geography":{"grain":"state","stateCodes":["WY"]},"completeness":"partial","reviewStatus":"reviewed","scope":"University of Wyoming Extension published these Firewise examples for its Wyoming rural-living audience and points readers to Firewise Wyoming. FireApproved publishes ten exact source owners while holding broad plant groups. State publication scope is not suitability across every basin.","sourceVersion":"UW-Extension-Barnyards-Backyards-Spring-2005","asOf":"2005-04-01T00:00:00.000Z"}],"firePerformanceConditions":[],"maintenanceAssertions":[],"maintenanceConditions":null,"regulatoryReviews":{},"seedReviews":{}},"legacyCompatibilityProjection":{"nativeStates":[],"invasiveIn":[],"usdaZoneMin":"3","usdaZoneMax":"7"},"localAssessmentContract":"Compare each dimension separately. State noxious-weed seed designations are material-scoped and never become non-seed plant restrictions, ecological-invasive findings, nursery restrictions, alternatives, product evidence, or fire votes. Introduced/established context is not an invasive warning. Minimum-only hardiness has no inferred maximum; canonical source-temperature conversion is validated and contradictory applicable rows project no primary zone. L48 context applies only to conterminous states and is never exact-state status. Fire-performance conditions are not maintenance advice. FEIS fire-ecology context does not vote in the plant classification. Absence of a status row is not regulatory clearance."}