Wildlife

Tassels; Prairie smoke

Geum triflorum
Habitat
Weippe Prairie
Conservation
Secure

The descriptive name “Prairie Smoke” comes from the feathery, persistent seed heads that resemble plumes of smoke.

Journal References

15 journal entries mention Tassels; Prairie smoke

May 18 1806
Lewis: May 18, 1806
...reserve for their small children who were very hungary; we smoked with them and they shortly after departed. early this morning the natives erected a lodge on the ...
May 18 1806
Clark: May 18, 1806
... reserve for their Small Children who was very hungary. we Smoked with them and they departed. The nativs made a lodge on the opposit bank of the river a little a...
Jun 6 1806
Clark: June 6, 1806
...h place the Broken Arm informed me he Should meet them and Smoke the pipe of peace. which he Should afterwards Send by with Some of his Chiefs in company with tho...
Jun 11 1806
Clark: June 11, 1806
...xpose it on sticks to dry in the Sun, or place it over the smoke of their fires.The bread thus prepared if kept free from moisture will Sound for a great length of...
Jun 11 1806
Lewis: June 11, 1806
...expose it on sticks to dry in the sun, or place it over the smoke of their fires.the bread this prepared if kept free from moisture will keep sound for a great len...
Jun 27 1806
Clark: June 27, 1806
...uest of the Guides a fiew minits on an ellevated point and Smoked a pipe on this eminance the nativs have raised a conic mound of Stons of 6 or 8 feet high and ere...
Jun 27 1806
Lewis: June 27, 1806
...t we halted by the request of the Indians a few minutes and smoked the pipe. on this eminence the natives have raised a conic mound of stones of 6 or eight feet hi...
Jul 3 1806
Lewis: July 3, 1806
...d them in such manner untill they placed themselves in the smoke of the fires that I realy thought they would become frantic. about an hour after dark the air beco...
Jul 4 1806
Lewis: July 4, 1806
... the chase unsuccessfull. I now ordered the horses saddled smoked a pipe with these friendly people and at noon bid them adieu. they had cut the meat which I gave ...
Jul 18 1806
Clark: July 18, 1806
...e plains on the Sides of hills &c. at 11 A.M. I observed a Smoke rise to the S. S. E in the plains towards the termonation of the rocky mountains in that direction...
Jul 19 1806
Clark: July 19, 1806
... the river, in the time I was absent in the woods. I saw a Smoke in the Same direction with that which I had Seen on the 7th inst. it appeared to be in the Mounta...
Jul 21 1806
Clark: July 21, 1806
...ave Stolen our horses, and probably those who had made the Smoke a fiew days passed towards the S. W. I deturmined to have the ballance of the horses guarded and f...
Jul 26 1806
Lewis: July 26, 1806
...ed and alighted from our horses; the Indians soon asked to smoke with us, but I told them that the man whom they had seen pass down the river had my pipe and we c...
Aug 14 1806
Clark: August 14, 1806
...o the Black Cats village & eate some Simnins with him, and Smoked a pipe this Village I discovered had been rebuilt Since I left it and much Smaller than it was; ...
Aug 15 1806
Clark: August 15, 1806
...806 Continued Mandans Vilg after assembling the Chiefs and Smokeing one pipe, I informed them that I Still Spoke the Same words which we had Spoken to them when we...

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