FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Trifolium repens | White Clover 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
The stolons of white clover are killed by fire. If fire occurs in a
young population, where taproots are still vigorous, plants may
resprout, although probably with reduced vigor.  


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
Where fire enhances grass cover, the increase competition may reduce
cover of white clover further.


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Very little information about how white clover responds to fire was
given in the literature.  Following mid-May precribed burning of a
Wisconsin oldfield being reclaimed to bluestem (Andropogon spp.)
prairie, white clover frequency was 4 percent.  Frequency was 1 percent
on control and 6 percent on mowed plots [43].  Johnson [19] reported
that white clover seeds germinated on both burned and unburned plots in
central Iowa.  After white clover was planted on the Sleeping Child Burn
in western Montana, it was present in postfire year 3 but was not
present in successional years [24].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Trifolium repens | White Clover