Herbs perennial, woody based. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 5-14 cm tall, appressed or subappresed pilose. Radical leaves and petiole 2-10 cm long; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially sparsely strigose; petiole appressed pilose; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets usually shortly petiolulate or subsessile, green on both surfaces, broadly obovate or elliptic, 1-2.5 cm long, 0.8-2 cm wide, both surfaces sparsely pilose, base cuneate, margin 3-5-dentate, apex truncate; teeth ovate, apex acute or obtuse; cauline leaves 1-2, resembling radical ones but leaflets smaller; stipules green, lanceolate, herbaceous, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, compact, corymbose. Flowers 5-10 cm in diameter. Sepals ovate or oblong, apex acute; epicalyx segments lanceolate, equaling sepals, abaxially pilose, apex acuminate. Petals yellow, obovate, nearly equaling or slightly longer than sepals, apex rounded. Stamens ca. 5. Style lateral. Achenes glabrous.

Sibbaldia cuneata Hornem. ex Kuntze:
Afghanistan (Asia)
Bhutan (Asia)
Nepal (Asia)
Pakistan (Asia)
Russian Federation (Asia)
China (Asia)

Sibbaldia cuneata is occurring in Qinghai, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan of China, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Sikkim.

C. Asia, Afghanistan, Himalaya, Tibet, China.

3400-4500 m

Herbs perennial, woody based. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 5–14 cm tall, appressed or subappresed pilose. Radical leaves 1.5–10 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially sparsely strigose; petiole appressed pilose; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets usually shortly petiolulate or subsessile, green on both surfaces, broadly obovate or elliptic, 0.8–2.5 × 0.6–1.8 cm, both surfaces sparsely pilose, base cuneate, margin 3–5-dentate, apex truncate; teeth ovate, apex acute or obtuse; cauline leaves 1 or 2, resembling radical ones but leaflets smaller; stipules green, lanceolate, herbaceous, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, compact, corymbose. Flowers 5–7 mm in diam. Sepals ovate or oblong, apex acute; epicalyx segments lanceolate, equaling sepals, abaxially pilose, apex acuminate. Petals yellow, obovate, nearly equaling or slightly longer than sepals, apex rounded. Stamens ca. 5. Style lateral. Achenes glabrous. Fl. and fr. May–Oct.

Sibbaldia cuneata is close relative of Sibbaldia tetrandra, but differs from the latter in its leaflets broadly obovate, base rounded to broadly cuneate (vs. obovate-oblong, base cuneate), flowers numerous (vs. 1-2), petals 5, equaling sepals (vs. 4, slightly longer than sepals).

Sibbaldia taiwanensis H. L. Li.

Growing in alpine meadows, rock crevices; 3300-4400 m.

Alpine meadows, rock crevices; 3400--4500 m. Qinghai, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan [Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Sikkim].

Flowering and fruiting from May to October.