and completely transitional and there seems to be no good reason to recognize more than 3 races for our area...". This has become the accepted view as researched by botanist Richard Pankhurst. It differs in having leaflets that are rounder (obovate-cuneiform instead of cuneiform), shorter leaves overall, and flowers that are more open or bell-shaped (campanulate). It was described from a type specimen found in the Olympic Mountains. It is recorded by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS database (PLANTS) as growing in Washington state and Oregon. This variety is accepted by World Flora Online (WFO) and PLANTS, but not Plants of the World Online (POWO) or Flora of North America (FNA). Geum triflorum var. canescens was similarly described by Greene as Erythrocoma canescens in his 1906 book. Arguing against Erythrocoma, the Swedish-American botanist Per Axel Rydberg classified it as Sieversia canescens in 1913. In 1958, American botanist and plant taxonomist Philip A. Munz accepted it as a species but moved it back to Geum as Geum canescens. In 1990, John T. Kartesz and Kanchi Gandhi published an article on the nomenclature of North American plants giving it its current status as a variety of G. triflorum. The type specimen was collected in the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1863 near Ebbett's Pass. It is distinguished by being stouter and sometimes taller than Geum triflorum var. campanulatum and covered in grayish-white hairs on the leaves "canescently soft-villous and sparsely pilose", but with similarly shorter leaves than the species. It is recorded by PLANTS as growing in the Pacific Northwest of the United States including California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington state, and Wyoming with county level distribution records in northern California and Nevada. This variety is accepted by WFO and PLANTS, but not POWO or FNA. Geum triflorum var. ciliatum was first described as species Geum ciliatum by Pursh at the same time as he described G. triflorum. Scottish botanist and plant collector George Don reclassified it as Sieversia ciliata in 1832 in the book A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants. It was similarly placed by Greene into his proposed Erythrocoma, but he separated it into two species, Erythrocoma ciliata and Erythrocoma grisea. In 1913, Rydberg described Sieversia grisea, but this is now accepted as a synonym for the variety. While there were other published classifications, the one currently accepted was written by Norman Carter Fassett and published