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Bush germander

Teucrium fruticans · Lamiaceae · all Teucrium records · also called Tree germander

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
No test or rating condition is normalized.
Fire ecology context
No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
Placement evidence
2 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
Catalonia, Spain; Georgetown, Texas; Global; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
Maintenance
No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
  • Firewise Plant Guide · Official scoped edition
    • Sun City Texas, Georgetown (TX footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2015-01-14

      The guide is authored for the Sun City Texas community in Georgetown. FireApproved publishes 142 exact owners only as community-level context. It is an archived HOA exhibit with unknown rating lineage, not a current statewide Texas source or an independent Tier 1 determination.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in CA.
Native range
No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
Introduced / established
1 sourced range or established record; set a location to match them. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
No hardiness value is normalized.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Legal-list status
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Seed-list status
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Reported invasive here
No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
Broader regional context
Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
Federal context
Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.
How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Bush germander (Teucrium fruticans)
Photo: (c) zebedeugalinha, some rights reserved (CC BY) (CC BY), via iNaturalist. Species-typical, not necessarily this cultivar.
Form
shrub
Grows in
CA
Rated in
Catalonia, Spain; Georgetown, Texas; Global; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
Family
Lamiaceae
Evidence
9 cited sources

Where its sources say to plant it

Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating. They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Recommends (2)

Mid-scale / conditional (1)

Listed without a rating (6)

Same genus in the directory · the Teucrium group page

Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Teucrium fruticans (Bush germander, Tree germander). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/teucrium-fruticans/. Last verified 2026-08-23.