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Fire Performance of Common Plants (Guide to Plants)

Diablo Firesafe Council. This registry entry connects 104 plant records to 104 normalized source rows. It is corroboration or adoption evidence; it does not cast an independent fire vote. Evidence kind: mirror; lineage: ucfpl-berkeley.

Publisher: Diablo Firesafe Council
Region: California
Evidence kind: Mirror
Linked plants: 104
Normalized rows: 104
Fire-evidence rows: 104

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Retrieved: 2026-08-29
Upstream license: No reuse license stated on the publisher page
Derived rows: CC BY 4.0
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Coverage contract

fire performance · reviewed: The guide presents itself as fire performance ratings for common landscape plants in a fire-prone California setting. FireApproved publishes 104 exact owners as republished California context. It is not an independent rating, a current endorsement, or parcel suitability.

The guide publishes two lists and their reference key. Table 1 holds plants with a favorable fire performance rating in 3 or more references, Table 2 holds plants with an unfavorable rating in 3 or more references, and Table 3 numbers the 57 references behind both. The page says the ranking terms used in those references were mostly undefined, that there is no agreed-upon standard definition, and that it therefore makes no attempt to rank within the list. It also states that a plant's fire performance is compromised if it is not irrigated, pruned, or planted in a suitable climate area.

Republication, not an independent rater. The guide's own Table 3 dates every one of its 57 references to 1996 or earlier, and its selection rule (three or more favorable references, three or more unfavorable references) is the rule used by the UC Forest Products Laboratory 1997 compilation held here as lubin-shelly-1997-ucfpl-compilation. Of the 130 plants in this directory citing that compilation, 84 are named in these tables. Every row therefore carries original: lubin-shelly-1997-ucfpl-compilation and the source is registered as a mirror in the ucfpl-berkeley lineage, so it cannot cast a second vote in the derived rating. Conservative exact reconciliation yields 104 evidence owners from 164 table rows. Sixty rows are held: genus-only entries (Abies spp., Populus spp., Palms), cultivar-only entries whose rating cannot honestly be attributed to the species (Lonicera japonica 'Halliana' is favorable in Table 1 while Lonicera japonica is unfavorable in Table 2), and pre-1997 synonyms this directory does not carry under that name. The guide is the live host of the tables that the old diablofiresafe.org/tolerance.html path used to serve.

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Linked plant records (104)

Each row names the evidence channel this source supports. Range, status, hardiness, and fire-ecology context remain separate from fire classification.

Plant	Source use
African lilyDietes bicolor	fire evidence · 1
Aloe brevifoliaAloe brevifolia	fire evidence · 1
Artemisia caucasicaArtemisia caucasica	fire evidence · 1
Australian saltbushAtriplex semibaccata	fire evidence · 1
beach strawberryFragaria chiloensis	fire evidence · 1
Berlandier's sundropsOenothera berlandieri	fire evidence · 1
big saltbushAtriplex lentiformis	fire evidence · 1
bigleaf periwinkleVinca major	fire evidence · 1
Blue ChalksticksSenecio serpens	fire evidence · 1
blue fingerSenecio mandraliscae	fire evidence · 1
blueblossomCeanothus thyrsiflorus	fire evidence · 1
bluewitch nightshadeSolanum xanti	fire evidence · 1
Brazilian peppertreeSchinus terebinthifolius	fire evidence · 1
British Columbia wildgingerAsarum caudatum	fire evidence · 1
broadleaf stonecropSedum spathulifolium	fire evidence · 1
Buff ClockflowerDietes vegeta	fire evidence · 1
California buckeyeAesculus californica	fire evidence · 1
California live oakQuercus agrifolia	fire evidence · 1
California poppyEschscholzia californica	fire evidence · 1
California redbudCercis occidentalis	fire evidence · 1
California wax myrtleMyrica californica	fire evidence · 1
candelabra aloeAloe arborescens	fire evidence · 1
Cape honeysuckleBignonia capensis	fire evidence · 1
CapeweedArctotheca calendula	fire evidence · 1
chamiseAdenostoma fasciculatum	fire evidence · 1
chaparral peaPickeringia montana	fire evidence · 1
Christmas-cheerSedum rubrotinctum	fire evidence · 1
common bugleAjuga reptans	fire evidence · 1
common periwinkleVinca minor	fire evidence · 1
common yarrowAchillea millefolium	fire evidence · 1
confederate jasmineTrachelospermum jasminoides	fire evidence · 1
Copper BrightfigLampranthus aurantiacus	fire evidence · 1
coppery mesembMalephora crocea	fire evidence · 1
creeping barberryBerberis repens	fire evidence · 1
creeping sageSalvia sonomensis	fire evidence · 1
creeping snowberrySymphoricarpos mollis	fire evidence · 1
Cretan rockroseCistus villosus	fire evidence · 1
Douglas irisIris douglasiana	fire evidence · 1
Douglas-firPseudotsuga menziesii	fire evidence · 1
Eastern Mojave buckwheatEriogonum fasciculatum	fire evidence · 1
elephant bushPortulacaria afra	fire evidence · 1
evergreen candytuftIberis sempervirens	fire evidence · 1
feijoaFeijoa sellowiana	fire evidence · 1
finger-limeCitrus spp.	fire evidence · 1
fourwing saltbushAtriplex canescens	fire evidence · 1
golden blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium californicum	fire evidence · 1
golden-yarrowEriophyllum confertiflorum	fire evidence · 1
goldmoss stonecropSedum acre	fire evidence · 1
hairy dewflowerDrosanthemum hispidum	fire evidence · 1
hollyleaf cherryPrunus lyonii	fire evidence · 1
hollyleaf cherryPrunus ilicifolia	fire evidence · 1
hottentot figCarpobrotus edulis	fire evidence · 1
hummingbird trumpetZauschneria californica	fire evidence · 1
Indian strawberryDuchesnea indica	fire evidence · 1
island gooseberryRibes viburnifolium	fire evidence · 1
Italian buckthornRhamnus alaternus	fire evidence · 1
ivyleaf geraniumPelargonium peltatum	fire evidence · 1
Japanese cheesewoodPittosporum tobira	fire evidence · 1
Japanese honeysuckleLonicera japonica	fire evidence · 1
jasmine nightshadeSolanum jasminoides	fire evidence · 1
jojobaSimmondsia chinensis	fire evidence · 1
lace aloeAloe aristata	fire evidence · 1
Latin American fleabaneErigeron karvinskianus	fire evidence · 1
lavender cottonSantolina chamaecyparissus	fire evidence · 1
lemonade sumacRhus integrifolia	fire evidence · 1
Lesser Mexican-StonecropSedum confusum	fire evidence · 1
Malephora luteolaMalephora luteola	fire evidence · 1
mother of thymeThymus praecox	fire evidence · 1
oleanderNerium oleander	fire evidence · 1
Pacific madroneArbutus menziesii	fire evidence · 1
Peruvian peppertreeSchinus molle	fire evidence · 1
pomegranatePunica granatum	fire evidence · 1
purple cistusCistus purpureus	fire evidence · 1
quaking aspenPopulus tremuloides	fire evidence · 1
red fescueFestuca rubra	fire evidence · 1
red valerianCentranthus ruber	fire evidence · 1
redflower false yuccaHesperaloe parviflora	fire evidence · 1
redhot pokerKniphofia uvaria	fire evidence · 1
redshankAdenostoma sparsifolium	fire evidence · 1
royal agaveAgave victoriae-reginae	fire evidence · 1
Short-leaved StonecropSedum brevifolium	fire evidence · 1
showy dewflowerDrosanthemum floribundum	fire evidence · 1
shrubby daisybushOsteospermum fruticosum	fire evidence · 1
SilverbushConvolvulus cneorum	fire evidence · 1
slender myoporumMyoporum parvifolium	fire evidence · 1
snow in summerCerastium tomentosum	fire evidence · 1
Society GarlicTulbaghia violacea	fire evidence · 1
Spanish broomSpartium junceum	fire evidence · 1
St. John's breadCeratonia siliqua	fire evidence · 1
stiffleaf cheesewoodPittosporum crassifolium	fire evidence · 1
strawberry cloverTrifolium fragiferum	fire evidence · 1
strawberry treeArbutus unedo	fire evidence · 1
Tasmanian bluegumEucalyptus globulus	fire evidence · 1
thrift seapinkArmeria maritima	fire evidence · 1
trailing iceplantLampranthus spectabilis	fire evidence · 1
treasure-flowerGazania uniflora	fire evidence · 1
trumpet creeperCampsis radicans	fire evidence · 1
turkey tangle fogfruitLippia nodiflora	fire evidence · 1
Uruguayan pampas grassCortaderia selloana	fire evidence · 1
weeping bottlebrushCallistemon viminalis	fire evidence · 1
western blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium bellum	fire evidence · 1
white alderAlnus rhombifolia	fire evidence · 1
white stonecropSedum album	fire evidence · 1
woolly bluecurlsTrichostema lanatum	fire evidence · 1

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