''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 Republic, 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 Circumscription (taxonomy), 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

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3776116 Rosaceae genera Potentilleae Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Plants described in 1753