Anemone drummondii is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, known by the common name Drummond's anemone. This wildflower is native to western North America from California to Alaska. It is a squat perennial with short erect stems and small, soft, wrinkled leaves while in flower. After flowering the leaves expand fully and reveal a multiply ternate dissected form with ultimate segments oblong to linear and a few mm wide.Hitchcock, C.L. and Cronquist, A. 2018. Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd Edition, p. 654. University of Washington Press, Seattle. Each clumping plant produces several showy flowers, each with five to eight petal-like sepals but no petals. The sepals are usually white, often with a distinct blue tint especially on the underside. The flower center is filled with many yellow-anthered stamens. The fruits are woolly achenes. This is a plant of mountainous environments such as the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada, extending from the coniferous forests to rocky slopes at alpine elevations. Anemone drummondii
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Anemone drummondii has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens18
Marker genes4
eDNA detections9
Countries2
Marker genes sequenced
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
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plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualAnemone drummondii carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin7.7 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 052 records
Wild obs. + sensor577
Museum / vouchered475
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 300 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy88% within 1 km
≤100 m 314≤1 km 41≤10 km 27>10 km 20
402 georeferenced · 175 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor577
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy51% within 1 km
≤100 m 6≤1 km 111≤10 km 103>10 km 8
228 georeferenced · 247 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence475
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions34 of 52 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Corvallis, US
44
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
42
Angwin, US
39
Arcata, US
35
Pullman, US
35
University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record
25
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
22
Victoria, CA
18
Moscow, US
13
University of Lethbridgelocation not on record
13
WTUlocation not on record
13
Vancouver, CA
12
Claremont, US
12
Anchorage, US
10
Yukon Universitylocation not on record
9
Missoula, US
7
Tacoma, US
6
San Francisco, US
5
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
5
Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record
4
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
4
Northridge, US
4
Portland, US
4
Bronx, US
4
Turlock, US
3
Riverside, US
3
Santa Barbara, US
3
B.A. Bennett Herbariumlocation not on record
3
KNFHClocation not on record
2
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
2
Canadian Museum of Naturelocation not on record
2
Université Lavallocation not on record
1
Durham, US
1
CASlocation not on record
1
Turku, FI
1
Logan, US
1
Fullerton, US
1
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
1
Kew, GB
1
New Brunswick, US
1
Henderson, US
1
MeiseBGlocation not on record
1
Brookings, US
1
Wuzhou, CN
1
ASUlocation not on record
1
Bloomington, US
1
Caldwell, US
1
Denver, US
1
Flagstaff, US
1
St. Paul, US
1
Tampa, US
1
Uppsala, SE
1
52 institutions · 424 of 475 vouchered records shown · 51 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA9 detections
Where the DNA of Anemone drummondii was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found9
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 9 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 countries0
Vegetated dune, growing in sand.Seep east-facing loose muddy slope. Open soi…Lateral moraine south-facing slope of 2°.Dryas alaskensis / Hedysarum boreale dominat…
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median11.2 °C -7.70–13.3
Seasonal swing summer↔winter35.0 °C
Max temp (day)15.5 °C -3.70–18.0
Min temp (night)6.10 °C -10.8–8.60
Precipitation70.4 mm/mo 44.3–134
Air humidity58.7 % 55.5–66.5
Moisture balance-22.0 mm/mo -51.6–32.8
Vapour deficit545 Pa 169–662
Wind speed4.30 m/s 3.00–5.30
Cloud cover50.8 % 41.0–72.5
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 7 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
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GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 052 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI9 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics18 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
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