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Westringia fruticosa
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Separate evidence questions, never one approval badge
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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
- Australia; Australian Capital Territory, Australia; Catalonia, Spain
- Maintenance
- No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
- State distribution
- No state distribution is normalized.
- Native range
- No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
- Introduced / established
- No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
- 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
- shrub
- Rated in
- Australia; Australian Capital Territory, Australia; Catalonia, Spain
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Evidence
- 3 cited sources
Where its sources say to plant it
- Guía de pirojardinería: suitable inside or outside the 25-metre maximum-risk zone
- Canberra Plant Selector: filtered result page 14
The evidence
Recommends (2)
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“RECOMENDADA”
Westringia fruticosa 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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Canberra Plant Selector — fire-retardant attribute
“Fire Retardant — Yes — Westringia fruticosa”
The live Canberra Plant Selector marks “Westringia fruticosa” as “Fire Retardant: Yes.”
Mid-scale / conditional (1)
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Fire Retardant Plants: Literature Review and Plant List
“List 3 — Mundi™ Westringia fruticosa ‘WES05’ A”
The review lists this plant with extra management criteria: prune dry-looking or brown foliage.