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Wildfire-resistant Landscape Plants for Michigan (Extension Bulletin E2948)
Michigan State University Extension (Hansen, Fernandez). This registry entry connects 224 plant records to 412 normalized source rows. It is primary fire evidence whose independent lineage can affect a fire classification. Evidence kind: expert-curated; lineage: msu-e2948.
- Publisher
- Michigan State University Extension (Hansen, Fernandez)
- Region
- Michigan / Great Lakes
- Evidence kind
- Expert-curated
- Linked plants
- 224
- Normalized rows
- 412
- Fire-evidence rows
- 221
Acquisition and license
- Source version
- MSU-Extension-E2948-2007
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-29
- Upstream license
- No reuse license stated in the archived publisher PDF
- Derived rows
- CC BY 4.0
- SHA-256
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Coverage contract
- fire performance · reviewed: Michigan State University Extension Bulletin E2948 is explicitly a list of wildfire-resistant landscape plants for Michigan and includes a Michigan-native field. FireApproved publishes 221 exact GBIF owners from 226 represented source rows and holds 15 complex or non-exact rows. This dated publication scope is not a current site-suitability determination.
Binary wildfire-resistant list: Table 1 prints 241 rows (2 annuals, 27 groundcovers, 57 perennials, 86 shrubs, 60 trees, 9 vines) with hardiness zones and a Michigan-native flag. Verdict map: listed = recommend.
Linked plant records (224)
| Plant | Source use |
|---|---|
| Alaska cedar | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| alpine currant | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| alpine rockcress | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| American cranberrybush | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| American plum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| annual phlox | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| apple | fire evidence · 1 |
| arborvitae | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Artemisia caucasica | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Asian Guelder Rose | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| barberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| basket of gold | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| beach strawberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| bearberry cotoneaster | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| beardtongue | fire evidence · 1 |
| beech | fire evidence · 1 |
| big blue lilyturf | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| bigfruit evening primrose | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| bigfruit evening primrose | hardiness · 1 |
| birch | fire evidence · 1 |
| black chokeberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| blackberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| blackberry-lily | fire evidence · 1 |
| blackgum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| blackhaw | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Blanket flower | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| bloody geranium | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| bluebell bellflower | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Boston ivy | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| broadleaf stonecrop | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Bukhara fleeceflower | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| bur oak | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Burkwood's daphne | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Burkwood's viburnum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Callery pear | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Canadian wildginger | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Carolina rose | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Caryopteris x clandonensis | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Catawba rosebay | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| cedar | fire evidence · 1 |
| cherry plum | hardiness · 1 |
| Chinese magnolia | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Chinese wisteria | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| chokecherry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| cinquefoil | fire evidence · 1 |
| coastal sweetpepperbush | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| columbine | fire evidence · 1 |
| common box | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| common bugle | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| common filbert | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| common hackberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| common houseleek | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| common lilac | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| common rock-rose | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| common snowberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| common winterberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| common yarrow | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| coralbells | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Cornelian cherry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Cotoneasters | fire evidence · 1 |
| cottonwood | fire evidence · 1 |
| cranberry cotoneaster | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Crane's-bills | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| creeping barberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Cytisus decumbens | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Dakota mock vervain | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Douglas-fir | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| dwarf lilyturf | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| eastern hemlock | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| eastern redbud | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| eastern teaberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| elephant-ear | fire evidence · 1 |
| English ivy | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| English lavender | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| English oak | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Erysimum linifolium | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| European beech | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| European hornbeam | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| European mountain ash | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| European smoketree | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| evening primrose | fire evidence · 1 |
| evergreen candytuft | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| feathered pink | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| fernleaf yarrow | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| fescue | fire evidence · 1 |
| firethorn | fire evidence · 1 |
| fireweed | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| flax | fire evidence · 1 |
| flowering dogwood | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| flowering quince | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| garland-flower | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Geranium cinereum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| ginseng | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| goldenrod | fire evidence · 1 |
| goldflame honeysuckle | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| hairy mock orange | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| hard fescue | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| hawthorn | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| hedge maple | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| hinoki false cypress | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| hollyleaved barberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| honeylocust | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| horse chestnut | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Hybrid yew | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Ilex x meserveae hybrids | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| incense cedar | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Italian alder | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Japanese flowering cherry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Japanese holly | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Japanese maple | fire evidence · 1 |
| Japanese meadowsweet | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Japanese pachysandra | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Japanese pieris | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Japanese snowball | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Japanese yew | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Kentucky coffeetree | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| kinnikinnick | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Koreanspice viburnum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| kousa dogwood | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| lavender cotton | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| lemon thyme | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| lilac | fire evidence · 1 |
| linden arrowwood | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| littleleaf linden | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Loebner's magnolia | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| London plane | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| lupine | fire evidence · 1 |
| Magellan barberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| maiden pink | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| maidenhair tree | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| maltesecross | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| memorial rose | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Mentor barberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| mock orange | fire evidence · 1 |
| moss phlox | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| mother of thyme | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Nanking cherry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| nannyberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Northern bayberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| northern catalpa | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| northern red oak | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Norway maple | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Norway spruce | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| oak | fire evidence · 1 |
| oakleaf hydrangea | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| oldfashioned weigela | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| orange eye butterflybush | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| paperbark maple | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| pink | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| plantain lily | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| poppy | fire evidence · 1 |
| pussytoes | fire evidence · 1 |
| quaking aspen | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| red chokeberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| red maple | fire evidence · 1 |
| red valerian | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| redbud | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| redosier dogwood | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| redosier dogwood | hardiness · 1 |
| Rhododendron obtusum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Rhododendron xkosteranum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| rockspray cotoneaster | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Rocky Mountain iris | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Roman chamomile | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| rose of Sharon | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Rowdy Lamb Herb | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| running strawberry bush | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| russet buffaloberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| sage | fire evidence · 1 |
| sandcherry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Saskatoon serviceberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| sawara-cypress | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Scotch rose | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| sedge | fire evidence · 1 |
| Serbian bellflower | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Serbian spruce | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| serviceberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Shasta Daisy | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Showy forsythia | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| shrubby cinquefoil | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Siberian dogwood | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Siberian-tea | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Siebold's arrowwood | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| silver buffaloberry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| slender pride of Rochester | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| snow in summer | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| southern arrowwood | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Spiraea vanhouttei | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| spreading cotoneaster | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| spring cinquefoil | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| star magnolia | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| strawberry | fire evidence · 1 |
| sugar maple | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| sumac | fire evidence · 1 |
| sweetgum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Syringa xprestoniae | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| tea viburnum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| thrift seapink | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| tickseed | fire evidence · 1 |
| trumpet creeper | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| trumpet honeysuckle | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| tuliptree | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| tworow stonecrop | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Viburnum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Viburnum xcarlcephalum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Viburnum xjuddii | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Virginia creeper | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| wall germander | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| walnut | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Washington hawthorn | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| wayfaringtree | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| western redcedar | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| western yarrow | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| white oak | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| white spruce | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| white stonecrop | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| wild chives | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| willow | fire evidence · 1 |
| winter-flowering cherry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Witherod viburnum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| woolly hedgenettle | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| Wright's viburnum | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |
| yarrow | fire evidence · 1 |
| Yoshino cherry | fire evidence · 1hardiness · 1 |