Prairie Smoke
Geum triflorum
zones 3-7
35 seeds
Prairie Smoke is a spring-blooming perennial herbaceous plant of North America from northern Canada to California and east to New York. This prairie wildflower blooms from mid-spring to early summer and has multiple flowering stems each holding three nodding pink bell-shaped flowers. Once the flowers are fertilized, they transform into nodding upright clusters of wispy pink seed heads.
Seeds are best sown in the autumn directly outdoors into garden of fine soil. The seeds should be mixed with potting soil, then broadcast onto the prepared area and gently watered in. Stored seeds will need cold stratification for 2-3 months and sown as early as possible in the spring. Germination, especially of stored seed, is slow. Plants will not flower until the second year.
Geum triflorum
zones 3-7
35 seeds
Prairie Smoke is a spring-blooming perennial herbaceous plant of North America from northern Canada to California and east to New York. This prairie wildflower blooms from mid-spring to early summer and has multiple flowering stems each holding three nodding pink bell-shaped flowers. Once the flowers are fertilized, they transform into nodding upright clusters of wispy pink seed heads.
Seeds are best sown in the autumn directly outdoors into garden of fine soil. The seeds should be mixed with potting soil, then broadcast onto the prepared area and gently watered in. Stored seeds will need cold stratification for 2-3 months and sown as early as possible in the spring. Germination, especially of stored seed, is slow. Plants will not flower until the second year.
Geum triflorum
zones 3-7
35 seeds
Prairie Smoke is a spring-blooming perennial herbaceous plant of North America from northern Canada to California and east to New York. This prairie wildflower blooms from mid-spring to early summer and has multiple flowering stems each holding three nodding pink bell-shaped flowers. Once the flowers are fertilized, they transform into nodding upright clusters of wispy pink seed heads.
Seeds are best sown in the autumn directly outdoors into garden of fine soil. The seeds should be mixed with potting soil, then broadcast onto the prepared area and gently watered in. Stored seeds will need cold stratification for 2-3 months and sown as early as possible in the spring. Germination, especially of stored seed, is slow. Plants will not flower until the second year.