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Landscaping for Wildfire Defensible Space in Northeastern Minnesota (Firewise)
Dovetail Partners (Ely, MN; supported by The Nature Conservancy / USDA Forest Service PERFACT agreement). This registry entry connects 39 plant records to 77 normalized source rows. It is primary fire evidence whose independent lineage can affect a fire classification. Evidence kind: keyed curation; lineage: ufifas-srs-tree.
- Publisher
- Dovetail Partners (Ely, MN; supported by The Nature Conservancy / USDA Forest Service PERFACT agreement)
- Region
- northeastern Minnesota
- Evidence kind
- Keyed curation
- Linked plants
- 39
- Normalized rows
- 77
- Fire-evidence rows
- 38
Acquisition and license
- Source version
- Dovetail-Northeastern-Minnesota-Firewise-2017
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-26
- Upstream license
- No reuse license stated on the source
- Derived rows
- CC BY 4.0
- SHA-256
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Coverage contract
- fire performance · reviewed: Dovetail applies the UF/IFAS flammability key to northeastern Minnesota natives and publishes placement for 38 exact source owners. FireApproved exposes those rows only as northeastern Minnesota regional context and preserves the 3-to-30-foot versus beyond-30-foot source placement.
Table 2 rates 38 wildfire-resistant, non-invasive plants low or moderate flammability using the UF/IFAS Circular 1453 methodology (Behm, Long, Monroe, Randall, Zipperer, Hermansen-Baez 2004), with the document's own placement mapping — low-flammability plants may be planted 3 to 30 feet from a building, moderate ones beyond 30 feet. Verdict map: low = recommend, moderate = mixed.
Linked plant records (39)
| Plant | Source use |
|---|---|
| bigleaf aster | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| blackeyed Susan | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| blackeyed Susan | hardiness · 1 |
| blazing star | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| blue giant hyssop | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| blueberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| bunchberry dogwood | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| butterfly milkweed | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Canadian wildginger | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| cardinalflower | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| common milkweed | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Culver's root | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| cup plant | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| currant | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| downy phlox | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| dwarf red blackberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| fireweed | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| goldenrod | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Greek valerian | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| hairy Solomon's seal | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Jack in the pulpit | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| northern bush honeysuckle | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| old man's whiskers | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| plantain lily | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| prairie sagewort | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| pride of Ohio | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| purple coneflower | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| purplestem aster | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| red columbine | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| sedge | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| spotted geranium | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| spotted joe pye weed | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| swamp verbena | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| tall bluebells | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| thimbleberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| violet | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Virginia mountainmint | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Virginia strawberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| whip-poor-will flower | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |