Management Dichelostemma capitatum



blue dicks @ antelope valley california poppy reserve, march 2005.


indigenous people had several different types of management activities ensure future corm production @ gathering sites:



periodic digging , thinning of corms or separating cormlets, , replanting them may have enhanced plant numbers , densities. digging corms acts form of tillage, increase size of gathering tract, aerate soil, lower weed competition, , prepare seedbed increase seed germination rates. dichelostemma capitatum populations require periodic disturbance maintain , increase populations; therefore, indigenous harvesting regimes may maintain populations. populations become overcrowded , show reduced vigor can divided , separated.







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