Antennaria dimorpha
(Nutt.) Torr. & A.Gray · speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Antennaria dimorpha's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 679 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Antennaria dimorpha is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common names low pussytoes or gray cushion pussytoes.Calflora taxon report, University of California, Antennaria dimorpha (Nutt.) Torrey & A. Gray Gray Cushion Pussytoes, low pussytoes It is native to western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan) and the western United States as far south as Riverside County in California and Rio Arriba County in New Mexico. It is generally found in dry areas. There are historical records of the species formerly occurring in northwestern Nebraska, but these populations appear now to be gone.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map Antennaria dimorpha is a small mat-forming perennial herb growing in a flat patch from a thick, branching caudex. The spoon-shaped leaves are up to about a centimeter long and green but coated with long, gray hairs. The erect inflorescences are only a few centimeters tall. Each holds a single flower head lined with dark brown and green patched phyllaries. It is dioecious, with male plants bearing heads of staminate flowers and female plants bearing heads of larger pistillate flowers. The fruit is an achene with a long, soft, barbed pappus.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology2
Life cycle & reproduction23
Habitat & environment21
Physiology & chemistry17
Uses & economy15
Other traits6
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 Antennaria dimorpha has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ 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.
The complete instruction manual Antennaria dimorpha 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.
2n 284×GoaT · Tree of Sex Database · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · TreeOfSex · plant
2n 561×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
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
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.
Record type2 679 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions56 of 81 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Pullman, US | 122 |
| Bronx, US | 112 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 109 |
| Corvallis, US | 66 |
| Claremont, US | 61 |
| Caldwell, US | 48 |
| Moscow, US | 48 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 42 |
| Missoula, US | 39 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 32 |
| Logan, US | 32 |
| Provo, US | 31 |
| Boise, US | 30 |
| Riverside, US | 26 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 22 |
| Arcata, US | 21 |
| Bozeman, US | 21 |
| Vancouver, CA | 20 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 18 |
| CASlocation not on record | 18 |
| Victoria, CA | 15 |
| Davis, US | 13 |
| Cheney, US | 13 |
| Pocatello, US | 13 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 11 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 10 |
| Denver, US | 9 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 9 |
| Angwin, US | 9 |
| Bend, US | 8 |
| Bloomington, US | 7 |
| Ashland, US | 7 |
| Pittsburg, US | 6 |
| Flagstaff, US | 5 |
| Bandelier National Monumentlocation not on record | 5 |
| Henderson, US | 5 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 5 |
| VALElocation not on record | 5 |
| Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record | 5 |
| DOI/NPS, Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preservelocation not on record | 4 |
| Madison, US | 4 |
| Bangkok, TH | 4 |
| Grand Junction, US | 3 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 3 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 3 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| University of British Columbialocation not on record | 2 |
| Durango, US | 2 |
| Spearfish, US | 2 |
| Albuquerque, US | 2 |
| San Diego, US | 2 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 2 |
| Lubbock, US | 2 |
| Orem, US | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Tacoma, US | 1 |
| San Francisco, US | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Macomb, US | 1 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| INFlocation not on record | 1 |
| Mississippi State, US | 1 |
| Bureau of Land Managementlocation not on record | 1 |
| Los Angeles, US | 1 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 1 |
| Porto Alegre, BR | 1 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 1 |
| Bureau of Land Management, Medford District Officelocation not on record | 1 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 1 |
| Northridge, US | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Phoenix, US | 1 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
| Chadron, US | 1 |
| Long Beach, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Antennaria dimorpha 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
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
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.