Rosaceae
Creeping sibbaldia
Sibbaldia procumbens
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Sibbaldia
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Common names
By language (14)
- Bulgarian
- Разпростряна сибалдия
- Chinese
- 五蕊莓, 山莓草, 五蕊梅, 木茎山金梅
- English
- Creeping sibbaldia
- Finnish
- Tunturinärvänä, Närvänä
- French
- Sibbaldie couchée, Sibbaldie à tiges couchées
- Georgian
- Sibbalda procumbens
- German
- Gelbling
- hsb
- Žołtušk
- Icelandic
- Fjallasmári
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Trefingerurt
- Polish
- Sybaldia rozesłana
- Slovenian
- Polegli žoltec
- Swedish
- Dvärgfingerört
- Welsh
- Sibaldia
Synonyms
- Coelas procumbens (L.) Dulac
- Dactylophyllum sibbaldia (Haller f.) Spenn.
- Potentilla montana Schur ex Nyman
- Potentilla procumbens (L.) Clairv.
- Potentilla sibbaldia Griess.
- Potentilla sibbaldia Kurtz
- Potentilla sibbaldiana Lehm.
- Potentilla sibbaldii Haller f.
- Sibbaldia coreana Nakai
- Sibbaldia macrophylla Turcz. ex Juz.
- Sibbaldia octopetala Mill.
- Sibbaldia procumbens subsp. macrophylla (Turcz. ex Juz.) Kamelin
- Sibbaldia procumbens subvar. grandifolia Briq.
- Sibbaldia procumbens var. coreana Nakai
- Sibbaldia procumbens var. macrophylla (Turcz. ex Juz.) Gubanov
- Sibbaldia procumbens var. pilosa Murr
- Sibbaldia procumbens var. procumbens
- Sibbaldia procumbens var. valdehirta Ohwi
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Greenland: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos

Photo: pellaea, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: MurielBendel, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: MurielBendel, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.