Geum triflorum
Prairie Smoke

Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)

Photo taken at Camas Meadows, on the border of an open conifer forest and meadow

Flowers:

1 to 3 flowers per stem, flowers are vase or bowl shaped; sepals reddish or purplish, erect 6-12 mm; petals erect to convergent, 6 to 13 mm, cream or tinged pink

Fruit:

achene 2.5 to 5 mm; style less than 35 mm, not hooked-plumose

Leaves:

2 stem leaves, opposite, more or less sheathing at the base; leaflets wedge shaped, generally 2 to 3 lobed halfway to the leaf base, lobes deeply few toothed

Plant:

perennial; 20 to 50 cm tall, more or less grey-green

Habitat:

moister areas from sagebrush plains and desert foothills to subalpine ridges

Distribution of species:

British Columbia to California, mostly east Cascades, to the Rocky Mountain States, Illinois, Nebraska, New York and Newfoundland

Distribution of genus:

40 to 50 species: generally northern temperate and arctic