Suksdorfia

Suksdorfia is a genus in the family Saxifragaceae. It has only two accepted species, Suksdorfia alchemilloides and Suksdorfia violacea, native to central South America and northwestern North America, respectively. Asa Gray named the genus Suksdorfia after Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf, a mostly self-taught German botanist who came to the United States at age eight and found the species S. violacea in the northwestern United States. S. violacea is the type species for this genus.