Anthriscus caucalis
M.Bieb. · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Anthriscus caucalis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility43 810 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI11 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics25 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 & karyotypeEvery layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Anthriscus caucalis, also burr chervil or bur-chervil, a plant in the family Apiaceae. It is similar in appearance to chervil, the common cooking herb from the same genus. It sends up thin, hollow stems and bears umbels of white flowers. The light green leaves are triangular and made up of many leaflets. The tiny hard fruits, each about 3 millimeters long, are covered in hooked spines. The plant is native to and common in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America, and has been introduced elsewhere.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology26
Life cycle & reproduction15
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment13
Physiology & chemistry4
Other traits3
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 Anthriscus caucalis 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 Anthriscus caucalis 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.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
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 1418×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · CCDB · brit-fl · CCDB · iber-fl +6
2n 164×CCDB · book-fedorov
2n 184×CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
n 73×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-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 type43 810 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.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions108 of 197 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| LDlocation not on record | 256 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 144 |
| MAlocation not on record | 123 |
| Riverside, US | 109 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 107 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 103 |
| Berlin, DE | 99 |
| Claremont, US | 74 |
| San Diego, US | 60 |
| València, ES | 57 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 57 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 54 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 53 |
| Davis, US | 48 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 45 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 43 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 42 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 40 |
| Corvallis, US | 38 |
| BClocation not on record | 38 |
| Görlitz, DE | 33 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 30 |
| Madrid, ES | 30 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 30 |
| UChlocation not on record | 30 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 29 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 29 |
| Salamanca, ES | 29 |
| South Kensington, GB | 28 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 27 |
| Pullman, US | 27 |
| Barcelona, ES | 24 |
| Badajoz, ES | 24 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 23 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 22 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 22 |
| Jaén, ES | 21 |
| Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswaldlocation not on record | 21 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 20 |
| DBF-NHMDlocation not on record | 20 |
| Wlocation not on record | 18 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 18 |
| Arcata, US | 17 |
| Vancouver, CA | 16 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 15 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 14 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 14 |
| PRClocation not on record | 14 |
| Granada, ES | 14 |
| Caldwell, US | 14 |
| UniKSlocation not on record | 14 |
| Moscow, US | 13 |
| Portland, US | 13 |
| Bern, CH | 12 |
| Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg e.V.location not on record | 11 |
| Boise, US | 11 |
| Salzburg, AT | 11 |
| Mlocation not on record | 11 |
| Córdoba, ES | 11 |
| Victoria, CA | 11 |
| Zürich, CH | 10 |
| Helsinki, FI | 10 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 9 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 9 |
| Auckland, NZ | 9 |
| Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsinlocation not on record | 9 |
| Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 9 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 8 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 8 |
| Columbia, US | 7 |
| Irvine, US | 7 |
| Wellington, NZ | 7 |
| Nagano City, JP | 7 |
| Zürich, CH | 7 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 7 |
| Hobart, AU | 7 |
| Angwin, US | 6 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 6 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 6 |
| Ashland, US | 6 |
| Long Beach, US | 6 |
| Palacký University in Olomouclocation not on record | 5 |
| Dresden, DE | 5 |
| Uppsala, SE | 5 |
| Alicante, ES | 5 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 5 |
| Olocation not on record | 5 |
| Turlock, US | 5 |
| Tilburg, NL | 5 |
| Valparaiso, CL | 4 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 4 |
| Xiamen, CN | 4 |
| CASlocation not on record | 4 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 4 |
| National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record | 4 |
| JBSlocation not on record | 4 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 4 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 4 |
| IDElocation not on record | 4 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 4 |
| Trondheim, NO | 3 |
| Paris, FR | 3 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 3 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 3 |
| College Park, US | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 3 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 3 |
| San Jose, US | 3 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 3 |
| Québec, CA | 3 |
| Bloomington, US | 3 |
| Little Rock, US | 3 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 3 |
| Bourges, FR | 3 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 3 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 3 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Viña del Mar, CL | 3 |
| Naturalis Biodiversity Centerlocation not on record | 3 |
| Mexico City, MX | 3 |
| H-Adlerlocation not on record | 3 |
| Northridge, US | 3 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 2 |
| Provo, US | 2 |
| H-Meierottlocation not on record | 2 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 2 |
| PrivatHerblocation not on record | 2 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 2 |
| Sevilla, ES | 2 |
| CJBNlocation not on record | 2 |
| Gijón, ES | 2 |
| Pocatello, US | 2 |
| Los Angeles, US | 2 |
| Vitoria, ES | 2 |
| Tacoma, US | 2 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 2 |
| Dover, US | 2 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 2 |
| Denver, US | 2 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 2 |
| Philadelphia, US | 2 |
| Kew, GB | 2 |
| Lausanne, CH | 2 |
| OLAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Macomb, US | 2 |
| New Brunswick, US | 2 |
| Dekalb, US | 2 |
| Canberra, AU | 2 |
| Oulu, FI | 2 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
| Kensington, AU | 1 |
| University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Taipei, TW | 1 |
| Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resourceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Fayetteville, US | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 1 |
| Flagstaff, US | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universität Erlangen-Nürnberglocation not on record | 1 |
| Henderson, US | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| Regensburgische Botanische Gesellschaftlocation not on record | 1 |
| STUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 1 |
| Universidad de Buenos Aireslocation not on record | 1 |
| San Isidro, AR | 1 |
| University of British Columbialocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Sunderland Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| GAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Namur, BE | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Bergen, NO | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Museo della Bonifica di San Donà di Piavelocation not on record | 1 |
| Jackson, US | 1 |
| Tampa, US | 1 |
| STNFlocation not on record | 1 |
| BG-NMNHSlocation not on record | 1 |
| EEZA-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| CIBIOlocation not on record | 1 |
| Brussel, BE | 1 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 1 |
| H-Dunkellocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Anthriscus caucalis 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.