Census data for seedlings part of a weed exclusion experiment at Sal del Rey, Texas within a larger field where ~100,000 seedlings were planted in October-November 2018. Records seedling height, vigor (0 - dead, > 0 - alive), branching, and animal damage for 158 individuals of eight species classified by growth habit (fast/slow) and distributed in control and exclusion (mowed) plots across seven censuses.

See methods of linked manuscript.

Two of the censuses are pre-treatment (census 0 and census 1), and the remainder are after mowing commenced.

A small number of observations (4) were missing data for one of animal damage, branching, or height; these data points are excluded from analyses involving these variables.

Any remaining missing values for animal damage, branching, or height are on dead (vigor = 0) individuals.