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Wildlife, Animals, and Plants
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FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Sisymbrium linifolium | Flaxleaf Plainsmustard
FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS :
Flaxleaf plainsmustard is moderately resistant to fire mortality.
Immediately following burning, plants are able to spread rapidly via
surviving rhizomes [7], but densities quickly decrease as other more
competitive species establish and/or recover.
POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY :
Survivor species, on-site surviving rhizomes
Survivor species, on-site surviving caudex
Off-site colonizer, seed carried by wind, postfire years 1-2
Related categories for Species: Sisymbrium linifolium
| Flaxleaf Plainsmustard
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