Sibbaldia procumbensL.

creeping sibbaldia

WFO wfo-0000992056 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sibbaldia procumbens, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-08 / obs. 158422684
Sibbaldia procumbens, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. b Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155001503
Sibbaldia procumbens, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. c Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160248389
Sibbaldia procumbens, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. d Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152839293
Sibbaldia procumbens, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. e Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152498805
Sibbaldia procumbens, photographed by Timothy McNitt
fig. f Timothy McNitt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170198641
Sibbaldia procumbens, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. g Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148506813
Sibbaldia procumbens, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. h Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151665068

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Native range 57 botanical countries

Regions where Sibbaldia procumbens is native: Altay, Amur, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Magadan, Manchuria, Primorye, Sakhalin, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, East European Russia, Finland, Føroyar, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, North European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Alaska, Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Greenland, Idaho, Labrador, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Oregon, Québec, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Yukon AltayAmurJapanKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKirgizstanMagadanManchuriaPrimoryeSakhalinXinjiangYakutiyaAustriaBulgariaCorseEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyIcelandItalyNorth European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandSpainSvalbardSwedenSwitzerlandAlaskaAlbertaArizonaBritish ColumbiaCaliforniaColoradoGreenlandIdahoLabradorMexico CentralMexico GulfMontanaNevadaNew HampshireNew MexicoNewfoundlandNorthwest TerritoriesNunavutOregonQuébecUtahWashingtonWyomingYukon KoreaFøroyar
Native distribution of Sibbaldia procumbens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
Arizona ARI
British Columbia BRC
California CAL
Colorado COL
Greenland GNL
Idaho IDA
Labrador LAB
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Montana MNT
Nevada NEV
New Hampshire NWH
New Mexico NWM
Newfoundland NFL
Northwest Territories NWT
Nunavut NUN
Oregon ORE
Québec QUE
Utah UTA
Washington WAS
Wyoming WYO
Yukon YUK
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
Føroyar FOR
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Iceland ICE
Italy ITA
North European Russia RUN
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Spain SPA
Svalbard SVA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Korea KOR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 235 in flower of 324 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Sibbaldia procumbens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 235 of 324 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,943 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -24.6 °C -16.2 °C -6.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 11.2 °C 16.1 °C 22.1 °C
Annual rainfall 738 mm 1,375 mm 3,453 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 65 mm 205 mm 420 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,943 research-grade observations of Sibbaldia procumbens that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • 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

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.