FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Corydalis aurea | Golden Corydalis 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Golden corydalis is probably always killed by fire.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Golden corydalis quickly invades recently burned areas by seed.
However, its survival in the postfire community appears to be very short
lived.

Golden corydalis invaded recently burned areas by wind-dispersed seed
after stand-replacing summer fire in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta)
stands in Colorado.  It was not present in adjacent unburned stands, but
in burned areas it had a frequency of 27.9 percent in the first postfire
year.  By the second postfire year, frequency had diminished to 9.7
percent, and it was thereafter eliminated from the postfire community
[2].  Golden corydalis was also present 1 year after moderate-severity
fires in lodgepole stands in Yellowstone National Park.  Information for
response after postfire year 1, however, was not given [1].

Golden corydalis bloomed and set seed in the first growing season
following severe fire in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)/ninebark
(Physocarpus malvaceus) habitats in western Montana.  However, it had
almost completely disappeared from the postfire community by the second
growing season.  The origin of the postfire seedlings was unknown, but
it may have been soil-stored seed [4].

Golden corydalis flowered the August following a May fire in black
spruce (Picea mariana)-white spruce (P. glauca) stands in Alaska [15].
No additional information was given.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

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