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Low-volume and slow-burning vegetation for planting on clearings in California chaparral
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. This registry entry connects 57 plant records to 57 normalized source rows. It is primary fire evidence whose independent lineage can affect a fire classification. Evidence kind: field program; lineage: nord-green-1977-psw124.
- Publisher
- USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station
- Region
- California
- Evidence kind
- Field program
- Linked plants
- 57
- Normalized rows
- 57
- Fire-evidence rows
- 57
Table 2 recommends named grasses for California fuelbreak sites. Tables 3 and 4 classify shrub field performance as Good, Fair, or Poor for southern California brushland clearings; Table 5 separately lists 22 shrub taxa not considered suitable, with reasons that include establishment, adaptation, fuel volume, morphology, and flammability.
Linked plant records (57)
| Plant | Source use |
|---|---|
| antelope bitterbrush | fire evidence · 1 |
| Artemisia aucheri | fire evidence · 1 |
| Artemisia caucasica | fire evidence · 1 |
| Athel tamarisk | fire evidence · 1 |
| Atriplex leucoclada var. turcomanica | fire evidence · 1 |
| Atriplex verrucifera | fire evidence · 1 |
| Australian saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| Barbary fig | fire evidence · 1 |
| big saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| big saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| bluegreen saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| bulbous canarygrass | fire evidence · 1 |
| Carmel ceanothus | fire evidence · 1 |
| cattle saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| coastal galenia | fire evidence · 1 |
| coyotebrush | fire evidence · 1 |
| creeping sage | fire evidence · 1 |
| Cretan rockrose | fire evidence · 1 |
| curly rockrose | fire evidence · 1 |
| desert bitterbrush | fire evidence · 1 |
| desertholly | fire evidence · 1 |
| forage kochia | fire evidence · 1 |
| fourwing saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| French lavender | fire evidence · 1 |
| Gardner's saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| Gardner's saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| Genista lydia | fire evidence · 1 |
| Green lavender-cotton | fire evidence · 1 |
| intermediate wheatgrass | fire evidence · 1 |
| intermediate wheatgrass | fire evidence · 1 |
| Ione manzanita | fire evidence · 1 |
| kinnikinnick | fire evidence · 1 |
| lavender cotton | fire evidence · 1 |
| Lindley's saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| Lobb's fiddleleaf | fire evidence · 1 |
| maritime ceanothus | fire evidence · 1 |
| Mason's ceanothus | fire evidence · 1 |
| mountain misery | fire evidence · 1 |
| Nuttall's saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| perennial veldtgrass | fire evidence · 1 |
| Point Reyes ceanothus | fire evidence · 1 |
| prostrate ceanothus | fire evidence · 1 |
| Rosemary | fire evidence · 1 |
| Rothrock's fiddleleaf | fire evidence · 1 |
| saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| salvia cistus | fire evidence · 1 |
| Sandberg bluegrass | fire evidence · 1 |
| shadscale saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| shrubby daisybush | fire evidence · 1 |
| sickle saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| slender myoporum | fire evidence · 1 |
| smilograss | fire evidence · 1 |
| Sunflower | fire evidence · 1 |
| Torrey's saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| wheelscale saltbush | fire evidence · 1 |
| white wormwood | fire evidence · 1 |
| winterfat | fire evidence · 1 |