FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Oxalis montana | Common Woodsorrel 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
No fire studies have been done on common woodsorrel.  Fire would
top-kill this plant.  Growing in mainly organic or shallow soils, its
rhizomes probably would not survive a fire of moderate severity.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Surviving rhizomes will sprout.  Existing patches can expand to colonize
open areas.  Vegetative reproduction allows the population flexibility
in initiating or stopping plant development.  Since common woodsorrel
can reproduce by asexual flowers, seed set is highly probable, despite a
possible low initial population size.  Dissemination by explosive
dehiscence provides the ability to colonize open disturbed areas.  When
open ground has closed with vegetation, common woodsorrel colonies will
continue to expand by rhizome growth (see SUCCESSIONAL STATUS).  


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Oxalis montana | Common Woodsorrel