{{Short description|Genus of Rosaceae plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = 1024 Arktisch-alpiner Garten Chemnitz-0899.jpg | image_caption = ''Geum pentapetalum'' synonym of ''Sieversia pentapetala'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Sieversia | authority = Willd. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Sieversia''''' is a genus of flowering plants of the family Rosaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=Sieversia ''Willd''. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30047759-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It is also in the subfamily Rosoideae,<ref>{{cite journal |author=D. Potter |author2=T. Eriksson |author3=R. C. Evans |author4=S. Oh |author5=J. E. E. Smedmark |author6=D. R. Morgan |author7=M. Kerr|author8=K. R. Robertson |author9=M. Arsenault|author10=T. A. Dickinson |author11=C. S. Campbell |name-list-style=amp |year=2007 |title=Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae |journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution |volume=266 |issue=1–2 |pages=5–43 |doi=10.1007/s00606-007-0539-9 |bibcode=2007PSyEv.266....5P |url=http://biology.umaine.edu/Amelanchier/Rosaceae_2007.pdf }}</ref> and tribe Colurieae.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?type=subfamily&id=3044 |title=Rosoideae|website=US National Germplast System|accessdate=6 June 2019}}</ref>
Its native range is the Russian Far East (within the federal subjects of Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye and Sakhalin including the Kuril Islands) to Japan and the Aleutian Islands.<ref name="POWO"/>
The genus name of ''Sieversia'' is in honour of Johann August Carl Sievers (1762–1795), a German-born botanist who explored Central Asia, Siberia, and other Asian regions of the Russian Empire.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> It was first described and published in Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Vol.5 on page 397 in 1811.<ref name=POWO/>
==Known species== According to Plants of the World Online:<ref name="POWO"/> {{linked species list |Sieversia pentapetala |(L.) Greene |Sieversia pusilla |(Gaertn.) Hultén }}
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Category:Rosaceae genera Category:Colurieae Category:Plants described in 1811 Category:Flora of the Russian Far East Category:Flora of Japan Category:Flora of the Aleutian Islands Category:Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow