Plants are assumed to adapt to fire regime. The recurrence intervals and spatial patterns of fires in the boreal forest, plus the ubiquitousness of most plants, render it unlikely that species-wide adaptations to burning regimes of particular sizes, timings, and intensities can be detected. On the other hand, it is reasonable to expect the evolution of broad, overlapping strategies for coping with fire. Plants are grouped as invaders, evaders, avoiders, resisters, and endurers in order to examine presumed adaptive traits such as seeding from a distance, seed storage in 'banks', sprouting from protected tissues, and resistance to burning. The categories are relevant to forecasting succession, given knowledge of fire behavior and terrain.