Sibbaldia is a genus of flowering plants of the family Rosaceae, with a circumpolar distribution, including the high Arctic. The type species is Sibbaldia procumbens. It is also in the Rosoideae subfamily.
The genus name of Sibbaldia is in honour of Robert Sibbald (1641–1722), a Scottish physician and antiquary. It was first described in 1753.
Range Its native range is the temperate Northern Hemisphere. It is found in Europe; (within Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corsica, East European Russia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, North European Russia, Norway, Poland, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia). In Asia; within Siberia (in Altai), the Russian Far East (within Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye and Sakhalin), central Asia (within Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan,) the Caucasus (North Caucasus and Transcaucasus), western Asia (Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq and Turkey), China (within Manchuria, north-central, Qinghai, south-central, Tibet and Xinjiang), Mongolia, eastern Asia (Japan, Korea and Taiwan), tropical Asia (the East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan and the West Himalaya). In America; Canada; (within the provinces of Alberta, Labrador, Newfoundland, Northwest Territorie, Nunavut, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Québec, Saskatchewan, and Yukon) and America; (within the states of Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming) and also in Mexico.
Species Morphological and genetic studies showed that Sibbaldia as then circumscribed was polyphyletic, with some species needing synonymizing or reassignment to (or from) other genera, including Sibbaldianthe, Chamaecallis, and Potentilla. , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: Sibbaldia aphanopetala Hand.-Mazz. Sibbaldia compacta (W.W.Sm. & Cave) Dikshit & Panigrahi Sibbaldia cuneata Edgew. Sibbaldia cuneifolia (Bertol.) Paule & Soják Sibbaldia macrophylla Turcz. ex Murav. Sibbaldia miyabei (Makino) Paule & Soják Sibbaldia olgae Juz. & Ovcz. Sibbaldia parviflora Willd. Sibbaldia perpusilla (Hook.f.) Chatterjee Sibbaldia procumbens L. Sibbaldia semiglabra C.A.Mey. Sibbaldia tridentata (Aiton) Paule & Soják Sibbaldia trullifolia (Hook.f.) Chatterjee
Former species Formerly accepted species include: Sibbaldia adpressa Bunge → Sibbaldianthe adpressa (Bunge) Juz. Sibbaldia micropetala (D.Don) Hand.-Mazz. → Potentilla micropetala D.Don Sibbaldia omeiensis T.T.Yu & C.L.Li → Potentilla omeiensis (T.T.Yü and C.L.Li) Soják Sibbaldia pentaphylla J.Krause → Potentilla clandestina Soják Sibbaldia perpusilloides (W.W.Sm.) Hand.-Mazz. → Chamaecallis perpusillodes (W.W.Sm.) Smedmark Sibbaldia phanerophlebia T.T.Yu & C.L.Li → probably P. micropetala Sibbaldia purpurea Royle → Potentilla purpurea (Royle) Hook. f. Sibbaldia sericea (Grubov) Soják → Sibbaldianthe sericea Grubov Sibbaldia sikkimensis (Prain) Chatterjee → Potentilla sikkimensis Prain Sibbaldia tenuis Hand.-Mazz. → Potentilla tenuis (Hand.-Mazz.) Soják Sibbaldia tetrandra Bunge → Potentilla tetrandra (Hook.f.) Bunge
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