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Society Garlic
Tulbaghia violacea
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1. Fire evidence and conditions
- Fire evidence
- Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
- Fire-performance conditions
- 1 condition stated in cited fire-evidence rows.
- Fire ecology context
- No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
- Placement evidence
- 3 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
- Evidence regions
- British Columbia; California; Catalonia, Spain; Dorset, United Kingdom; Georgetown, Texas; Marin County, California
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
Typed publication scope: 3 scopes across 3 cited fire sources
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- Documented in WA, OR, ID.
- 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
- Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
- Seed-list status
- Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
- 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.
- Form
- perennial
- Grows in
- WA, OR, ID
- Rated in
- British Columbia; California; Catalonia, Spain; Dorset, United Kingdom +2
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
- Evidence
- 6 cited sources
Conditions in the fire evidence
Where its sources say to plant it
- Guía de pirojardinería: suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone
- Defensible Space Landscaping in the Urban/Wildland Interf…: Chapter 4, Landscape Vegetation Database
- Firewise Plant Guide: Perennials
The evidence
Recommends (6)
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FireSmart BC Plant Program — fire-resistant plant chart
“FireSmart-approved fire-resistant plant”
Flagged by FireSmart BC as needing more research.
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Fire-Resistant Plants Common to Marin County
“listed as fire-resistant”
Fire Safe Marin lists this taxon among fire-resistant plants common to Marin County.
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Protecting your home from wildfire — plants and tips that can reduce your risk
“Green traffic-light class — Society Garlic”
The leaflet labels this plant low risk even during drought.
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“RECOMENDADA”
Tulbaghia violacea is rated “RECOMENDADA” by the guide's qualitative IUF garden-suitability method. The method assumes species-specific care and integrates fire evidence with fuel structure, maintenance, origin, invasiveness, and expert fire-service experience.
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“RECOMMENDED by 5 references for use in high fire risk areas.”
1997 Landscape Vegetation Database row: Tulbaghia violacea (Society garlic). Preserved UCFPL transcription marker: F5.
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“low”
The table rates Society Garlic — Tulbaghia violacea low for flammability hazard, defined as the ease a plant can burn at high temperatures for a prolonged time.