Fire Ecology

Table 2

From: Smoke-Cued Emergence in Plant Species of Ponderosa Pine Forests: Contrasting Greenhouse and Field Results

	Control	Smoke	Seed wt.^b
Species	Emergence (%)^a		(mg)
Artemisia ludoviciana	20±19	55±11	0.14
Erigeron speciosus	8±6	27±6	0.05
Penstemon barbatus	8±9	61±13	0.76
Penstemon pachyphyllus	3±4	30±8	1.76
Penstemon palmeri	41±6	81±10	0.86
Penstemon rostriflorus	3±6	23±3	0.42
Penstemon virgatus	19±9	61±6	0.86
Symphyotrichum falcatum	13±9	30±18	0.18

^a Mean ± 1 SD.
^b Mean weight of individual seeds; n = 50 for seeds averaging >0.5 mg and n = 100 for seeds averaging <0.5 mg.

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