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SPECIES: Hymenoclea salsola | White Burrobrush
IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : White burrobrush is often top-killed by fire. Most white burrobrush plants were burned to ground level by a severe summer fire in the Snow Creek area of Riverside County, California [23]. In a canyon in the San Ysidro Mountains, California, a July wildfire in the chaparral-desert ecotone top-killed nearly all white burrobrush plants. Occasional small pockets of plants in protected areas were not harmed [29]. DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : NO-ENTRY PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : White burrobrush populations recover quickly after fire via off-site seeds and sprouting [23,29]. Five years after the Snow Creek fire, white burrobrush frequency and cover were greater on burned than unburned sites [23]. Following the July fire in the San Ysidro Mountains, more than 90 percent of white burrobrush plants survived by sprouting. Some white burrobrush started sprouting within 2 months after the fire. Regrowth is summarized below [29]: # of resprouting Mean # of Mean length of plants/ha sprouts/plant sprouts (cm) 2 months after 5 1 3.8 fire (Sept) 4 months after 114 9 14.5 fire (Nov) 7 months after 247 6 10.4 fire (Feb) 10 months after 79 12 33.3 fire (June) DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : NO-ENTRY FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : NO-ENTRY

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