Geum triflorumPursh

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WFO wfo-0001012992 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Geum triflorum, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. a Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 204750705
Geum triflorum, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. b Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204743445
Geum triflorum, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. c Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205919844
Geum triflorum, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. d Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204630213
Geum triflorum, photographed by Henrique Pacheco
fig. e Henrique Pacheco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205669534
Geum triflorum, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. f Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204543443
Geum triflorum, photographed by Paul Prior
fig. g Paul Prior, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204092284
Geum triflorum, photographed by Patrick Jackson
fig. h Patrick Jackson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203357186

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 2,418 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 2,418 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 31 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Erythrocoma brevifolia Greene
  • Erythrocoma campanulata Greene
  • Erythrocoma canescens Greene
  • Erythrocoma ciliata (Pursh) Greene
  • Erythrocoma ciliata var. ornata Greene
  • Erythrocoma flavula Greene
  • Erythrocoma grisea Greene
  • Erythrocoma triflora (Pursh) Greene
  • Geum campanulatum (Greene) G.N.Jones
  • Geum canescens (Greene) Munz
  • Geum ciliatum Pursh
  • Geum ciliatum var. griseum (Greene) Kearney & Peebles
  • Geum ciliatum var. triflorum (Pursh) Jeps.
  • Geum grahamii Steud.
  • Geum pubescens Hook.
  • Geum triflorum f. flavulum (Greene) Fassett
  • Geum triflorum f. ornatum (Greene) Fassett
  • Geum triflorum f. pallidum Fassett
  • Geum triflorum f. triflorum
  • Geum triflorum var. campanulatum (Greene) C.L.Hitchc.
  • Geum triflorum var. canescens (Greene) Kartesz & Gandhi
  • Sieversia brevifolia (Greene) Rydb.
  • Sieversia campanulata (Greene) Rydb.
  • Sieversia canescens (Greene) Rydb.

and 7 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.