FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Blechnum spicant | Deer Fern 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Deer fern is probably top-killed by fire.  Rhizomes may survive light
surface fires.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Information on the response of deer fern to fire is sparse.  It was not
destroyed by a March fire in a Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris) stand in
Great Britain, and survived by sprouting from rhizomes.  It had a
postfire frequency of 95 percent in the year of the fire and in the
first two postfire years [35].

Frequent, light surface fires encourage redwood (Sequoia
sempervirens)/deer fern forest associations in northern California [27].
Deer fern probably survives these low-severity fires by sprouting from
surviving rhizomes.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Blechnum spicant | Deer Fern