FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Leptodactylon pungens | Prickly Phlox 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Prickly phlox is severely damaged by fire [34].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
In sagebrush-grass vegetation of the Great Basin area of Utah, West and
Hassan [32] reported the percent cover of prickly phlox initially
decreased after a July wildfire.  For four macroplots sampled before and
after the wildfire, the mean (kg/ha) and one standard error of mean
(within parenthesis) for prickly phlox were as follows [32]:

             1981                1982                  1983
        (before fire)

LEPPUN    8.08 (23.10)         0.78 (2.62)           3.32 (8.92)

In western Nevada, prickly phlox increased in density after burning
[35].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Leptodactylon pungens | Prickly Phlox