Sibbaldianthe bifurca is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae which can be found in the steppes, grasslands and various slopes of Russia, Korea, and Mongolia at an elevation of 400-. It is also found on sandy coasts of North and Northeast China. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 in his book Species Plantarum as Potentilla bifurca.[1]
Plants are 5cm–20cmcm (02inches–10inchescm) tall. Each leaf has 3–8 pairs of leaflets, which are elliptic to ovate or obovate, sessile, and 5-. The leaves are 3– long with membranous brown stipules. Flowers up to 0.7– across. The sepals are ovate, with acute apexes; the petals are yellow and obovate with rounded apexes. The ovary is pilose but the achenes are smooth. Both flowers and fruits appear from May to October.[1]
Book: Species Plantarum. Carl Linnaeus. 1. 497. 1753.