| Description | 'Prairie Smoke' (Geum triflorum) is a beautiful native plant found growing in dry prairies. Flowers produce elongated silky styles that produce a plume resembling smoke. |
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| Pronunciation | (JEE-um)(TRY-flor-um) |
| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | found in Prairies and dry open woodland |
| Flowers | floral shoots are borne in open umbel like groups on dropping stalks, sepals reddish purple, petals yellowish white |
| Fruit | fruit is fluffy turfs of achenes each tipped with a slender flexible plume (style) |
| Leaves | hairy basal leaves are pinnately compound forming rosettes, has small opposite stem leaves |
| Stems | soft hairy stems, form branching rhizomes |
| Dimensions | 6-16 inches tall |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Misc Facts | The name Geum is derived from the Greek "geno" which means "to yield an agreeable fragrance" or from the Greek word "geuein" which means to "to give a good taste". |
| Author's Notes | When in the seed head stage the plants are extremely interesting. The fluffy, wispy heads seem to float in the air. |
| Notes & Reference | #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz), #140-Prairie Plants of the UW Madison Arboretum (Theodore Cochrane, Kandis Elliot, Claudia Lipke) |
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