FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Oxydendrum arboreum | Sourwood 



IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT : 
Low-severity fire typically top-kills sourwood [1,20].  Oosting [31]
reports that a single high-severity ground fire completely eliminated
sourwood from a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) community in North Carolina.


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE : 
Sourwood is usually an increaser following low-severity fire [32].
Following an early summer prescribed fire on the Sumter National Forest
in South Carolina, sourwood stem density increased from 33 stems per acre
(82 stem/ha) to 420 stems per acre (1,040 stems/ha) [38].


DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE : 
NO-ENTRY


FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
If used as a management tool, Trousdell [39] recommends one winter fire
followed by three summer fires as the treatment most effective in
controlling sourwood.

Related categories for Species: Oxydendrum arboreum | Sourwood