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Triticum aestivum · Poaceae · also called Triticum aestivum · Wikipedia

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Form
grass
Mature height
~3.3 ft
Water need
low
Rated in
Global
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
Introduced / established
50 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Only uncertain or inapplicable hardiness rows are cited; no primary zone is projected.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Reported invasive here
3 ecological invasive reports.
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.

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

50

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

50 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Alaska (AK)
  • Alabama (AL)
  • Arkansas (AR)
  • Arizona (AZ)
  • California (CA)
  • Colorado (CO)
  • Connecticut (CT)
  • District of Columbia (DC)
  • Florida (FL)
  • Georgia (GA)
  • Hawaii (HI)
  • Iowa (IA)
  • Idaho (ID)
  • Illinois (IL)
  • Indiana (IN)
  • Kansas (KS)
  • Kentucky (KY)
  • Louisiana (LA)
  • Massachusetts (MA)
  • Maryland (MD)
  • Maine (ME)
  • Michigan (MI)
  • Minnesota (MN)
  • Missouri (MO)
  • Mississippi (MS)
  • Montana (MT)
  • North Carolina (NC)
  • Nebraska (NE)
  • New Hampshire (NH)
  • New Jersey (NJ)
  • New Mexico (NM)
  • Nevada (NV)
  • New York (NY)
  • Ohio (OH)
  • Oklahoma (OK)
  • Oregon (OR)
  • Pennsylvania (PA)
  • Puerto Rico (PR)
  • Rhode I. (RI)
  • South Carolina (SC)
  • South Dakota (SD)
  • Tennessee (TN)
  • Texas (TX)
  • Utah (UT)
  • Virginia (VA)
  • Vermont (VT)
  • Washington (WA)
  • Wisconsin (WI)
  • West Virginia (WV)
  • Wyoming (WY)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

Plant hardiness evidence

These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.

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.

Listed without a rating (24)
Corroboration (24 rows from 1 source)

  • FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

    24 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Boutchiche2022: Boutchiche, H., Mosbah, O., Sahila, A., Raposo, J., Reis, L., Viegas, D. X., ... Zekri, N. (2022). Influence of Compactness Upon Flammability Properties of Forest Fuels. in review, preprint.

      Shared row context: plant part whole plant; fuel dead; predrying no; device calorimeter; site Boutchiche2022-2; sampling ND.

      • Shared measurement context: Sustainability measurement.

        • “flaming duration (s): 152.8”

          FLAMITS record 18053.

        • “flaming duration (s): 95.77”

          FLAMITS record 18054.

        • “flaming duration (s): 80.32”

          FLAMITS record 18055.

        • “flaming duration (s): 80.58”

          FLAMITS record 18056.

        • “flaming duration (s): 42.7”

          FLAMITS record 18057.

        • “flaming duration (s): 43.19”

          FLAMITS record 18058.

        • “flaming duration (s): 39.89”

          FLAMITS record 18076.

        • “flaming duration (s): 37.45”

          FLAMITS record 18077.

        • “flaming duration (s): 76.02”

          FLAMITS record 18078.

        • “flaming duration (s): 80.34”

          FLAMITS record 18079.

        • “flaming duration (s): 90.43”

          FLAMITS record 18080.

        • “flaming duration (s): 152.36”

          FLAMITS record 18081.

      • Shared measurement context: Ignitability measurement.

        • “time to flaming (s): 8.68”

          FLAMITS record 18100.

        • “time to flaming (s): 6.9”

          FLAMITS record 18101.

        • “time to flaming (s): 6.11”

          FLAMITS record 18102.

        • “time to flaming (s): 6.8”

          FLAMITS record 18103.

        • “time to flaming (s): 8.97”

          FLAMITS record 18104.

        • “time to flaming (s): 11.09”

          FLAMITS record 18105.

        • “time to flaming (s): 11.41”

          FLAMITS record 18124.

        • “time to flaming (s): 9.38”

          FLAMITS record 18125.

        • “time to flaming (s): 6.87”

          FLAMITS record 18126.

        • “time to flaming (s): 6.56”

          FLAMITS record 18127.

        • “time to flaming (s): 7.11”

          FLAMITS record 18128.

        • “time to flaming (s): 8.71”

          FLAMITS record 18129.

Fire-resistant grasss instead

tall fescue
Festuca arundinacea tall fescue
Lolium arundinaceum fox sedge
Carex vulpinoidea woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus longhair sedge
Carex comosa prairie cordgrass
Spartina pectinata

Last verified 2026-08-25. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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