FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Rubus canadensis | Thornless Blackberry 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Fire top-kills thornless blackberry [9].  Thornless blackberry probably
survives most fires by sprouting from rootstocks and/or rhizomes [5,9].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Like all blackberries, thornless blackberry is well adapted to colonize
burns [6,35].  After logging and slash burning in the spruce-fir zone of
the Appalachian Mountains, blackberry species were predominant on most
sites [37].  Saunders and others [29] reported that thornless blackberry
made up 19 percent of the stems present in the shrub layer following a
severe fire in the mountains of western North Carolina.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Species: Rubus canadensis | Thornless Blackberry