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Percentage of dormant seeds (black) and germinable seeds (gray) for fresh seeds; 2 years old, laboratory-stored seeds; and seeds successfully recovered at different time intervals after burial. Numbers at the top of each bar represent the number of seeds examined for fresh (never buried), laboratory-stored (never buried), and buried seeds (i.e., the number of seeds retrieved from the common garden experiment and used for the germination experiment).
