Prairie smoke starting to bloom in my garden this week.

Often in the summer my wife and I teach an ecology week at our church camp in the Paha Sapa (Black Hills of South Dakota) and when we do, one of the easiest ways to engender wonder in the campers is to invite them to look at the flowers of the fields. This is one of them. Understated, delicate, and lovely.

More information about this beautiful flower: Geum triflorum / piŋkpá hiŋšmá

A pink prairie smoke flower begins to blossom. It has short stems that are upright and the blossoms are currently like small onions hanging down from the stem. Green feathery leaves sprout at the base of the pink stems, and the ground is covered with dry leaves.