Aquilegia laramiensis

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Aquilegia

At a glance

Occurrence records33

Data sources9

Biological traits9

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections2

Sources9 archives

Databases and archives Aquilegia laramiensis's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility33 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗

PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype

On this page6 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources9 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF33 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries2 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

Genome at a glanceCCDB2n = 14

01Narrative

Aquilegia laramiensis is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name Laramie columbine. It is endemic to Wyoming in the United States, where it is known only from the Laramie Mountains.Aquilegia laramiensis. Flora of North America.Aquilegia laramiensis. NatureServe.Marriott, H. and M.L. Pokorny (2006, January 20). Aquilegia laramiensis A. Nelson (Laramie columbine): A technical conservation assessment. [Online]. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region. This rhizomatous perennial herb produces stems up to 25 centimeters long. The leaves are compound, divided into leaflets. The nodding flowers have greenish white or lavender sepals up to 1.5 centimeters in length. The cream-colored to lavender petals are up to 1.2 centimeters long and have thick, hooked spurs. The fruit is a follicle up to 1.4 centimeters long. This plant is limited to one mountain range in Albany and Converse Counties in Wyoming. Many occurrences are within Medicine Bow National Forest, and the others are on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and on privately owned land. Occurrences are small, most containing fewer than 100 individuals. The plant grows on large rock outcrops in pockets of soil and rock cracks. The outcrops are surrounded by forest habitat and sometimes sagebrush and grassland. It grows in shady spots in all aspects. Associated species include fragile fern (Cystopteris fragilis), little-flowered alumroot (Heuchera parvifolia), glandular oceanspray (Holodiscus dumosus), mountain ninebark (Physocarpus monogynus), Brandegee's Jacob's ladder (Polemonium brandegeei), bigflower cinquefoil (Potentilla fissa), red raspberry (Rubus idaeus), Idaho ragwort (Senecio rapifolius), and Rocky Mountain woodsia (Woodsia scopulina). There are no major threats to the species because it occurs in remote, rugged habitat.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPGIFTTRY

Life cycle & reproduction2

Life formperennial

Life spanperennial

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment6

Aquaticterrestrial

Climatesubalpine or subarctic

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Growth formherb

Woodinessnon-woody

05DNA & barcoding2 specimens

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 laramiensis has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

Marker genes2

eDNA detections2

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.

★matK★ITS2

plant barcodefungal barcode

06Genome at a glanceCCDB

The complete instruction manual Aquilegia laramiensis 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.

Chromosomes2n = 14 n = 7

Ploidydiploid inferred

Chromosome records14–142n range14median14mode3records

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 143×CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 · CCDB · eflora · CCDB · iapt

CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 — CRAWFORD, D.J. & R.C. GARDNER. 1974. Documented plant chromosome numbers 1974: 2. Sida 5: 292-294.

CCDB · eflora

CCDB · iapt — IAPT/IOPB Chromosome Data 23

Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources

diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale

PloiDB · genus-scale — chromEvol; reliability=1.000 ↗

07Deep time~1.21 Ma lineage

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 origin1.21 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 type33 records

Wild obs. + sensor28

Museum / vouchered5

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO56 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 accuracy70% within 1 km

≤100 m 14>10 km 6

20 georeferenced · 8 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor28

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 accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 1

1 georeferenced · 4 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence5

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 institutions1 of 2 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Bronx, US	4
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record	1

2 institutions · 5 of 5 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA2 detections

Where the DNA of Aquilegia laramiensis 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 found2

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 2 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 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.

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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