Aquilegia chrysantha, the golden columbine, is a perennial herbaceous plant native to the southwestern United States from extreme southern Utah to Texas and northwestern Mexico. The ferny leaves have three leaflets with three lobes and grow from the base and off the flowering stems. The flowers, which appear in May and early June, grow on a long stem above the leaves and have five pointed yellow sepals and five yellow petals with long spurs projecting backwards between the sepals. At the center of the flower are many yellow stamens. The cultivar ‘Yellow Queen’ has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Aquilegia chrysantha across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
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 Aquilegia chrysantha has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens4
Marker genes4
GenBank sequences6
eDNA detections4
Countries2
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ 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.
★matK2★rbcL3★ITS1★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualAquilegia chrysantha 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.
Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references
2n 143×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · Cave1959
CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 — ZHUKOVA, P. G. 1967. Karyology of some plants, cultivated in the Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden. (In Russian). In N. A. Avrorin (ed.): Plantarum in Zonam Polarem Transportatio. II. Leningrad 1967, pp. 139-149.
CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 — KURITA, M. 1961. Chromosome studies in Ranunculaceae XVIII. Karyotypes of several species. Mem. Ehime Univ. Sect. II (Sci.) Ser. B (Biol.), Q(2): 251-261.
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 origin1.7 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 type2 369 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 702
Museum / vouchered663
Cultivated / captive4
Origin
Introduced33
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO3 440 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 accuracy86% within 1 km
≤100 m 884≤1 km 288≤10 km 114>10 km 69
1 355 georeferenced · 347 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 702
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 accuracy61% within 1 km
≤100 m 53≤1 km 128≤10 km 100>10 km 16
297 georeferenced · 366 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence663
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km
≤1 km 4
4 georeferenced
Open the mapnot free-living4
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 institutions48 of 69 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
ASUlocation not on record
167
Flagstaff, US
120
Phoenix, US
96
Bronx, US
36
EL PASO, US
24
Albuquerque, US
24
Chicago, US
17
Riverside, US
16
Denver, US
12
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
10
Austin, US
9
Saint Louis, US
7
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
7
Claremont, US
6
Mexico City, MX
6
Wuzhou, CN
5
Durango, MX
4
USFSlocation not on record
4
Santa Barbara, US
4
Logan, US
4
Mexico City, MX
4
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
3
Chapingo, MX
3
Tampa, US
3
Hermosillo, MX
3
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
3
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
3
Emporia, US
3
Chadron, US
2
University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record
2
San Luis Obispo, US
2
Tampere, FI
2
Podgorica, ME
2
Lubbock, US
2
Bloomington, US
2
AUAlocation not on record
2
San Diego, US
2
Oskarshamn, SE
2
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
2
Northridge, US
1
Linares, MX
1
Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record
1
Millersville, US
1
Pullman, US
1
BAYLUlocation not on record
1
Fullerton, US
1
Austin, US
1
Davenport, US
1
LDlocation not on record
1
San Jose, US
1
Bern, CH
1
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
1
The University of Arizonalocation not on record
1
La Paz, BO
1
Northern Arizona University, School of Forestrylocation not on record
1
Tilburg, NL
1
BClocation not on record
1
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
1
Philadelphia, US
1
Grand Junction, US
1
Görlitz, DE
1
Brookings, US
1
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
Wlocation not on record
1
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciencelocation not on record
1
Moscow, US
1
Auckland, NZ
1
Durango, US
1
Angwin, US
1
69 institutions · 655 of 663 vouchered records shown · 7 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA4 detections
Where the DNA of Aquilegia chrysantha 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 found4
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 4 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 countries0
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 median13.8 °C 11.4–16.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter21.4 °C
Max temp (day)18.9 °C 15.1–22.6
Min temp (night)8.40 °C 6.70–10.1
Precipitation174 mm/mo 129–218
Air humidity56.4 % 52.7–60.1
Moisture balance48.5 mm/mo -13.1–110
Vapour deficit717 Pa 549–885
Wind speed2.00 m/s 1.60–2.40
Cloud cover27.3 % 20.1–34.5
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 369 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics4 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗