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Fire-Retardant Plants for Brush Fire Prevention in Hillside Residential Areas
Los Angeles State & County Arboretum. This registry entry connects 25 plant records to 25 normalized source rows. It is primary fire evidence whose independent lineage can affect a fire classification. Evidence kind: field program; lineage: la-arboretum-tree.
- Publisher
- Los Angeles State & County Arboretum
- Region
- Southern California
- Evidence kind
- Field program
- Linked plants
- 25
- Normalized rows
- 25
- Fire-evidence rows
- 25
Table 1 recommends 30 low-growing shrubs and herbaceous perennials in four fire-retardance categories based on leaf moisture capacity: Category 1, greatest (90-95%); Category 2, high (80-95%); Category 3, medium-high (70-80%); and Category 4, least among the recommended set (60-70%).
Linked plant records (25)
| Plant | Source use |
|---|---|
| Aaron's beard | fire evidence · 1 |
| Algerian ivy | fire evidence · 1 |
| Australian saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| bigleaf periwinkle | fire evidence · 1 |
| Blue Chalksticks | fire evidence · 1 |
| Capeweed | fire evidence · 1 |
| Christmas-cheer | fire evidence · 1 |
| common periwinkle | fire evidence · 1 |
| common rock-rose | fire evidence · 1 |
| coppery mesemb | fire evidence · 1 |
| English ivy | fire evidence · 1 |
| Green lavender-cotton | fire evidence · 1 |
| hairy dewflower | fire evidence · 1 |
| hottentot fig | fire evidence · 1 |
| ivyleaf geranium | fire evidence · 1 |
| lavender cotton | fire evidence · 1 |
| Lesser Mexican-Stonecrop | fire evidence · 1 |
| Malephora luteola | fire evidence · 1 |
| Short-leaved Stonecrop | fire evidence · 1 |
| shrubby daisybush | fire evidence · 1 |
| slender myoporum | fire evidence · 1 |
| snow in summer | fire evidence · 1 |
| trailing iceplant | fire evidence · 1 |
| treasure-flower | fire evidence · 1 |
| wall germander | fire evidence · 1 |