FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Potentilla glandulosa | Sticky Cinquefoil 



FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : 
Very little is known about the adaptations of sticky cinquefoil to fire.
Fire is infrequent on many of the more mesic alpine sites occupied by
sticky cinquefoil but probably occurs at least occasionally on some of
the more xeric montane coniferous sites.  Some varieties or populations
of sticky cinquefoil have short to well-developed rhizomes [8], while
others are nonrhizomatous [14], suggesting the possibility of variable
responses to fire.  Plants with rhizomes could potentially resprout
after fire.  Nonrhizomatous individuals would probably be killed by
fire.

Sticky cinquefoil is a seedbanker in parts of central Idaho and
presumably elsewhere [14,15].  Large numbers of seed which are stored in
the soil germinate after mechanical- or fire-induced scarification.


POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : 
   Rhizomatous herb, rhizome in soil
   Ground residual colonizer (on-site, initial community)

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