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...