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Chinese wisteria has one prohibited legal-list row for Delaware in the local regulatory record. That legal status is presented independently from the fire recommendation.
Two directional sources place Wisteria sinensis on-list: one calls it a low-flammability climber, and the other recommends it as wildfire-resistant for its regional climate. Both are recommendation records, and their exact language remains in the evidence table.
One ecological report separately describes the plant as widespread-invasive. It stays outside the fire tally, and the source rows preserve the two aligned recommendation records without using invasive status as support.
Form
vine
Rated in
Michigan / Great Lakes; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Michigan / Great Lakes; Valencia, Spain / western Mediterranean
Maintenance
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
Michigan State University Extension Bulletin E2948 is explicitly a list of wildfire-resistant landscape plants for Michigan and includes a Michigan-native field. FireApproved publishes 221 exact GBIF owners from 226 represented source rows and holds 15 complex or non-exact rows. This dated publication scope is not a current site-suitability determination.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NY, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WV.
Native range
Introduced / established
11 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Documented range 5–8.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
1 legal-list record; the Place chip matches exact scope.
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.
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.
5–8 explicit range · whole zone precision · source stated
Source taxon: Wisteria sinensis · exact match.
Source location: Table 1, vine row.
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.
