Table 1.

Summary statistics for phenology for the summers of 1999 and 2000. Data obtained at both sites (Bernards and Deslioures) were pooled and expressed as mean ± s.d. All durations and time‐lags are in days

	1999	2000
Duration of the flowering period within an inflorescence	7·1 ± 2·0 (n = 209)	6·9 ± 2·5 (n = 118)
Average number of simultaneously flowering ranks	9·0 ± 2·0 (n = 209)	8·9 ± 3·6 (n = 118)
Average total number of ranks on an inflorescence (terminal and axillary)	17·7 ± 3·2 (n = 209)	16·6 ± 3·2 (n = 118)
Duration of the flowering period on a whole plant	17·8 ± 3·9 (n = 40)	–
Time lag between terminal inflorescences	4·0 ± 3·8 (n = 32)	–
Time lag between axillary inflorescences	1·2 ± 1·3 (n = 52)	1·4 ± 1·4 (n = 30)
Time lag between terminal and axillary inflorescences	6·9 ± 1·0 (n = 63)	7·0 ± 2·2 (n = 28)