FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Grindelia squarrosa | Curlycup Gumweed 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Curlycup gumweed is probably top-killed by fire.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Curlycup gumweed colonizes disturbed areas, and establishes or increases
after fire.

Curlycup gumweed was a trace species with 0.1 percent cover before a
natural range fire occurred in a cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum)-sand
dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus)-red threeawn (Aristida longiseta)
community during the summer of 1956.  It was not present the first
growing season following the fire, in 1957.  At the end of the next
growing season, its cover was 1.2 percent.  During the next
2 years it was present only in trace amounts [5].

Curlycup gumweed populations increased following a 1983 or 1984 wildfire
of unknown intensity and season in a 9,600 square foot (800 sq m) area
in central Utah [21].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Grindelia squarrosa | Curlycup Gumweed