FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Ostrya virginiana | Eastern Hophornbeam 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Eastern hophornbeam can be killed by severe fires.  Areas burned
severely enough to kill most of the overstory in oak (Quercus spp.)
stands in Rhode Island contained no eastern hophornbeam 50 years later
[4].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Eastern hophornbeam will sprout from the stump following fire.
Following spring fires in New York, 62 percent of the top-killed stems
sprouted, and in Minnesota, 100 percent of the top-killed stems sprouted
[28,40]. 


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
Management practices that utilize periodic burning are highly effective
in controlling and eventually eliminating eastern hophornbeam [7,35].

The initial incidence of fire in the Big Woods of Minnesota converted
the forest into a thicket of basswood and eastern hophornbeam.
Subsequent fires converted them to a bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa)
savanna [23].

Related categories for Species: Ostrya virginiana | Eastern Hophornbeam