FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Hordeum jubatum | Foxtail Barley 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Moderate fires with probably top-kill foxtail barley, and hot fires may
kill the underground root system.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Foxtail barley generally recovers after fire through off-site seeds
[27].  Foxtail barley is most sensitive to spring fire that coincides
with its active growing period [41,42].  After a North Dakota prairie
fire in the spring of 1966, foxtail barley culm production was greatly
reduced [12].  However, the opposite was found to be true following a
1972 spring fire on a northwestern Minnesota prairie.  Here flowering
activity was stimulated [27].  Following a burn along the Missouri River
Breaks of central Montana, foxtail barley was one of the first grass
species to become established [44].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
As a general rule, undesirable cool-season grasses such as foxtail
barley can be reduced with late spring burns [41].

Related categories for Species: Hordeum jubatum | Foxtail Barley