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Geum spp. (accepted: Geum) · Rosaceae · all Geum records · also called Prairie Smoke · Wikipedia

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Geum has an on list recommendation. Its limited evidence label records the depth of the citation stack. That is not one slogan on Geum. Prairie Smoke is the vernacular name attached to Geum.

Geum still has genus rank umbrella record after that lead pair. Geum does not pick only one of those facts on Geum.

Open the evidence table for Geum. Those jumps stay with Geum rather than copying rows.

on list recommendation and limited evidence stay co-cited on Geum so Geum is not flattened to a banner word.

Form
perennial
Rated in
Oregon (Willamette Valley)
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Placement evidence
1 source placement record; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions
Oregon (Willamette Valley)
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
  • Fire-resistant Landscape Plants for the Willamette Valley (EM 9103) · Official scoped edition
    • Willamette Valley (OR footprint); partial normalized coverage · 2015-02-01

      OSU Extension says EM 9103 highlights fire-resistant plants that thrive under Willamette Valley growing conditions. FireApproved publishes 172 exact owners only as valley context. The guide shares the PNW 590 lineage and is not a second independent vote or statewide site clearance.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in OR.
USDA hardiness
Documented range 5–7.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Plant hardiness evidence

These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.

Where its sources say to plant it

Placement rules below use each source's own distances or named zones, tied to its rating. They are not interchangeable with the directory's current Zone 0 guidance.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

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Last verified 2026-08-25. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Geum spp. (Prairie Smoke). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/geum/. Last verified 2026-08-25.