FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Tetradymia glabrata | Littleleaf Horsebrush 



FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS : 
Plants of littleleaf horsebrush stand dormant throughout most of the
year on the dry ranges where they occur.  During a fire these
much-branched shrubs burn rapidly, with little heat transferred downward
into the roots.  Fire stimulates the roots of littleleaf horsebrush to
sprout [14].


POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY : 
   Small shrub, adventitious-bud root crown
   Ground residual colonizer (on-site, initial community)

Related categories for Species: Tetradymia glabrata | Littleleaf Horsebrush