What is "suksdorfia"

n. any of several American plants of the genus Suksdorfia having orbicular to kidney-shaped somewhat succulent leaves and white or rose or violet flowers in terminal panicles

Suksdorfia is a genus in the family Saxifragaceae. There are only two accepted species: Suksdorfia ranunculifolia and Suksdorfia violacea. 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.

Since the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature of 1906, the genus name Suksdorfia Gray, published in 1879, has been conserved against the earlier name Hemieva Raf., which had been published in 1837 with the type species Hemieva ranunculifolia (Hook.) Raf. (based on Saxifraga ranunculifolia Hook., published in 1832).