FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Galium triflorum | Sweetscented Bedstraw 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Sweetscented bedstraw is top-killed by low-severity fires [12].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Sweetscented bedstraw apparently increases rapidly immediately following
fire, then decreases over time.  Sweetscented bedstraw seeds showed
rapid germination after relatively "cool" fires in eastern white pine
(Pinus Strobus) and eastern white pine/mixed hardwood stands in New
Hampshire [8].  Following the Pattee Canyon Fire in Missoula, Montana,
sweetscented bedstraw bloomed at the first postfire year.  Spring and
fall fires resulted in the greatest increase in frequency in Montana
[7].  Leege and Godboldt [32] reported that it decreased to trace
amounts by the fourth growing season following fire in grand
fir/pachistima (Abies grandis/Pachistima myrsinites) habitat types of
northern Idaho.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Galium triflorum | Sweetscented Bedstraw