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Sweet acacia has native and introduced range documented in range evidence. One ecological invasive report supplies status context, while the evidence table marks the Vachellia farnesiana pack limited evidence.
The two range categories, ecological entry, and source-depth notice retain different scopes. On farnesiana, the distribution citation does not become fire support, and the invasive report does not alter the accepted pack. Revisiting the cited evidence preserves those boundaries. The range route continues to document both categories without changing what the limited-depth notice means for this acacia. The boundary remains species-specific here.
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Rated in
Yavapai County, Arizona
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Yavapai County, Arizona
Maintenance
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
Yavapai County (AZ footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2025-03-14
University of Arizona Cooperative Extension authors Bulletin 34 for Yavapai County. FireApproved publishes 198 exact source owners from its resistant and prone tables and keeps the county boundary visible. County publication scope is regional Arizona context, never statewide scope.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in AL, AZ, CA, FL, GA, HI, LA, MS, NM, PR, TX, VI.
Native range
Current cited native range in AL, AR, AZ, CA, FL, GA, LA, MS, PR, SC, TX.
Introduced / established
1 sourced range or established record. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
1 ecological invasive report.
Broader regional context
Federal context
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.
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.
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 as Sweet acacia — Vachellia farnesiana. The bulletin says fire-resistant plants tend to resist ignition when irrigated and maintained, while fire-prone plants may ignite readily and burn intensely.
