Greenbrier fire dogs
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Select plants with a low flammability rating for the sites nearest your home. Has been qualified for threatened status under Canada's Species at Risk Act.įire Risk: This plant has an extreme flammability rating and should not be planted within the defensible space of your home. Typically, these thorns are broad at the base, flat and straight. Thorns up to 1/3" long are found along the stems. It spreads primarily by rhizomes and tolerates a wide range of soil types. The species is not self-fertile as individual flowers are either male or female, but only one sex is to be found on any one plant so both male and female plants must be grown if seed is required. Climbing or spreading up to 20', this vine will climb adjacent vegetation if available or sprawl along the ground. Round-Leaved Greenbrier is a deciduous to semi-evergreen woody vine in the greenbrier family. The common greenbrier is most often found in forests with sandy, moist to dry soils, in woodlands, fields, and pond borders, hedgerows, thickets. Phonetic Spelling SMY-laks ro-tun-dih-FOH-lee-uh Description