Table 2.

Morphological properties of bottle brush, trumpet bush, and pink trumpet grown on two soils under different levels of compaction.^{^z}

Species		Height (cm)	Shoot diameter (cm)	Leaf number	Shoot dry weight (g)	Root dry weight (g)	Leaf dry weight (g)	Leaf area (cm²)
Bottle brush
Compaction	Pr > (SE^{^y})	(16.5)^{^x}	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Control		94.5	4.8	733	25.9	16.1	18.2	731
Intermediate		100	4.7	867	23.8	15.2	16.3	1064
High		124	4.2	988	30.1	13.7	21.1	1007
Soil	Pr > (SE^{^y})	NS	(0.85)^{^x}	(243)^{^w}	NS	(5.9)^{^x}	(3.6)^{^x}	(280)^{^w}
Sandy clay loam		105	5.1	1209	32.3	18.5	23.6	1207
Clay		107	4.1	516	20.9	11.5	13.5	661
Trumpet bush
Compaction	Pr > (SE^{^y})	(8.7)^{^w}	(0.57)^{^w}	(24.3)^{^x}	(6.1)^{^x}	(5.1)^{^w}	NS	NS
Control		96.4	6.0	95.9	20.1	26.5	23.8	1443
Intermediate		83.2	4.8	84.1	24.4	22.0	20.2	1083
High		30.4	1.9	34.8	8.1	6.5	4.9	582
Soil	Pr > (SE^{^y})	(7.1)^{^x}	(0.48)^{^x}	(23)^{^x}	(5.7)^{^w}	(4.7)^{^w}	NS	(465)^{^x}
Sandy clay loam		81	5.1	92.5	24.0	24.1	22.5	1474
Clay		59 *	3.4	50.7	11.1	12.6	10.1	598
Pink trumpet
Compaction	Pr > (SE^{^y})	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	(12.3)^{^x}	NS
Control		81.4	7.8	10.9	35.3	35.9	27.8	1504
Intermediate		81.3	6.4	11.4	35.3	37.2	37.0	1610
High		79.6	7.1	9.8	27.5	25.1	17.7	1061
Soil	Pr > (SE^{^y})	NS	NS	(1.9)^{^x}	(7.2)^{^x}	(5.3)^{^x}	(12.1)^{^w}	(333)^{^x}
Sandy clay loam		82.8	7.3	12	39.2	37.6	35.0	1761
Clay		78.8	6.9	9.4	26.2	28.0	20	1023

↵^zMeans and standard errors are listed to indicate species soil-compaction and soil type variability.
SE = standard error.
↵SE^y = only shown for significant effects.
↵^xP < 0.05; all compaction level^x soil type interactions were NS and are not shown
↵^wP < 0.01