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.