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Quantifying and ranking the flammability of ornamental shrubs in the southern United States
USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station + NIST (Long, Behm, Zipperer, Hermansen, Maranghides, Mell). This registry entry connects 34 plant records to 34 normalized source rows. It is primary fire evidence whose independent lineage can affect a fire classification. Evidence kind: lab-tested; lineage: ufifas-srs-tree.
- Publisher
- USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station + NIST (Long, Behm, Zipperer, Hermansen, Maranghides, Mell)
- Region
- southeastern US
- Evidence kind
- Lab-tested
- Linked plants
- 34
- Normalized rows
- 34
- Fire-evidence rows
- 34
Whole-plant burns with large-scale calorimetry at NIST BFRL; cluster analysis produced 22 low / 8 moderate / 4 high flammability among 34 ornamental shrubs. Verdict map: low = recommend, moderate = mixed, high = avoid.
Linked plant records (34)
| Plant | Source use |
|---|---|
| Adam's needle | fire evidence · 1 |
| Ashe's juniper | fire evidence · 1 |
| azaleas | fire evidence · 1 |
| camellia | fire evidence · 1 |
| Cape jasmine | fire evidence · 1 |
| Chinese abelia | fire evidence · 1 |
| Chinese juniper | fire evidence · 1 |
| coastal sweetpepperbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| common winterberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| coontie | fire evidence · 1 |
| Florida anisetree | fire evidence · 1 |
| Florida hobblebush | fire evidence · 1 |
| French hydrangea | fire evidence · 1 |
| great laurel | fire evidence · 1 |
| Ilex x meserveae hybrids | fire evidence · 1 |
| inkberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| Japanese cheesewood | fire evidence · 1 |
| Leyland Cypress | fire evidence · 1 |
| littleleaf boxwood | fire evidence · 1 |
| mountain laurel | fire evidence · 1 |
| Northern bayberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| oakleaf hydrangea | fire evidence · 1 |
| oldfashioned weigela | fire evidence · 1 |
| oleander | fire evidence · 1 |
| orange eye butterflybush | fire evidence · 1 |
| purple beautyberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| scarlet firethorn | fire evidence · 1 |
| Showy forsythia | fire evidence · 1 |
| shrubby cinquefoil | fire evidence · 1 |
| small-leaf arrowwood | fire evidence · 1 |
| southern arrowwood | fire evidence · 1 |
| southern Indian azalea | fire evidence · 1 |
| topel holly | fire evidence · 1 |
| yaupon | fire evidence · 1 |