Three Flowered Avens (Prairie Smoke, Old Man's Whiskers)
Geum triflorum
Pollinator plant

(c) Matt Lavin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
Growing it
| When | Flowers May to June; fruits June to July |
|---|---|
| Type | wildflower |
| Sun | Full sun, partial shade |
| Water | Low, medium |
| Soil | pH 6–8 |
| Hardiness | zone 2–7 |
| Mature height | 0.3 m |
| Mature spread | 0.45 m |
| Spacing | 0.3 m |
| Years to maturity | 2 |
| Bloom | May–Jun |
| Flower colour | Pink read from a published flora |
| In bloom | May June |
| Fruit | Jun–Jul |
| Native to | AB, SK |
feather-compound leaves about 15 cm long
Where it has been recorded
Which ecoregions the records fall in
- Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 836 records, high confidence
- Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 659 records, high confidence
- Northern Continental Divide south AB: 511 records, high confidence
- Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 506 records, high confidence
- Western Alberta Upland central AB: 314 records, high confidence
- Fescue Grassland south AB: 290 records, high confidence
- Cypress Upland south AB / SK: 232 records, high confidence
- Eastern Continental Ranges central AB: 97 records, high confidence
- Peace Lowland north AB: 50 records, high confidence
- Boreal Transition central AB / SK: 45 records, high confidence
- Slave River Lowland north AB: 8 records, medium confidence
- Mid-Boreal Uplands central AB / SK: 7 records, low confidence
These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.
See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.
Documented animals
15 documented relationships.
nectar for
- American Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Andrena nigrihirta Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Bear-like Digger Bee Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Golden Northern Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Halictus confusus Specimen records from ecdysis.org
- Hunt's Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Mordellistena cervicalis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Pearl Crescent Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Red-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Silvery Blue Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Tricoloured Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
pollen for
- Black-tailed Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Western Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
Also worth knowing
Safety
Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety
Edible parts
Root (tea)?
Buying it
About $8–$16 per plant (estimate), usually stocked by garden centres. Estimate (herb default); AB retail as of 2026
Where these numbers came from
- Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate