Astragalus canadensis
speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Astragalus canadensis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 128 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI10 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics24 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Astragalus canadensis is a common and widespread member of the milkvetch genus in the legume family, known commonly as Canadian milkvetch. The plant is found throughout Canada and the United States in many habitats including wetlands, woodlands, and prairies. It sends out several thin, erect, green stems, bearing leaves that are actually made up of pairs of leaflets, each leaflet up to 3 centimeters in length. It has inflorescences of tubular, greenish-white flowers which yield beanlike fruits within pods that rattle when dry. Like other Astragalus species, A. canadensis is somewhat toxic, but it has been used medicinally by Native American groups such as the Blackfoot and Lakota people, particularly the roots.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology5
Life cycle & reproduction27
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment25
Physiology & chemistry25
Uses & economy15
Other traits4
Compounds documented for Astragalus canadensis across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile3 classes
Documented compounds15 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2S,3R,4S,5R,6R)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-6-(3-nitropropoxy)oxane-3,4,5-triol | present | LOTUS | |
| 1-Hexanol | present | NPASS | |
| 1-Hydroxy-3-octanone | present | NPASS | |
| 2-(Hydroxymethyl)-6-(3-nitropropoxy)oxane-3,4,5-triol | present | LOTUS | |
| 3-nitropropyl beta-D-glucopyranoside | present | LOTUS | |
| [(2R,3S,4R,5R,6S)-4,5-dihydroxy-3,6-bis(3-nitropropanoyloxy)oxan-2-yl]methyl 3-nitropropanoate | present | LOTUS | |
| Benzyl alcohol | present | NPASS | |
| beta-D-Glucopyranose, 1,2,6-tris(3-nitropropanoate) | present | LOTUS | |
| Butanoic acid, 3-hydroxy-, ethyl ester, (3S)- | present | NPASS | |
| butyl (3S)-3-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxybutanoate | present | NPASS |
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 Astragalus canadensis 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 Astragalus canadensis 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 165×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants · CCDB · Cave1957 +1
n 81×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.
How it livedPBDB
Record type3 128 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 institutions75 of 110 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 54 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 34 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 27 |
| WINlocation not on record | 25 |
| Lincoln, US | 25 |
| Moscow, US | 20 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 20 |
| Chadron, US | 18 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 15 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 15 |
| Denver, US | 14 |
| LDlocation not on record | 14 |
| Bangkok, TH | 13 |
| Québec, CA | 12 |
| Bloomington, US | 12 |
| Pocatello, US | 11 |
| Boise, US | 11 |
| Fort Worth, US | 11 |
| Toronto, CA | 11 |
| Bozeman, US | 10 |
| Williamsburg, US | 10 |
| Pullman, US | 10 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 10 |
| Brookings, US | 9 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 9 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 9 |
| Claremont, US | 8 |
| Austin, US | 8 |
| Saint Louis, US | 8 |
| Spearfish, US | 8 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 7 |
| Davenport, US | 7 |
| Bronx, US | 7 |
| Philadelphia, US | 7 |
| Victoria, CA | 7 |
| Missoula, US | 6 |
| US | 6 |
| Dekalb, US | 6 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 5 |
| Jackson, US | 5 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 5 |
| Montréal, CA | 5 |
| Corvallis, US | 5 |
| Madison, US | 5 |
| Emporia, US | 5 |
| Logan, US | 5 |
| US | 5 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 4 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| Pittsburg, US | 3 |
| Norfolk, US | 3 |
| Millersville, US | 3 |
| Paris, FR | 3 |
| Knoxville, US | 3 |
| Provo, US | 3 |
| Vancouver, CA | 3 |
| Caldwell, US | 3 |
| New Haven, US | 3 |
| US | 3 |
| St. Paul, US | 3 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 3 |
| CASlocation not on record | 2 |
| Johnson City, US | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Beijing, CN | 2 |
| Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Albuquerque, US | 2 |
| EL PASO, US | 2 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 2 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 2 |
| Whitewater, US | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Mississippi National River & Recreation Arealocation not on record | 1 |
| USFS/BHSClocation not on record | 1 |
| University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Science Museum of Minnesotalocation not on record | 1 |
| Asheville, US | 1 |
| Miami, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 1 |
| Royal Botanical Gardenslocation not on record | 1 |
| Angwin, US | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| Burlington, US | 1 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Lethbridgelocation not on record | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| Montréal, CA | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Vascular Plant Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record | 1 |
| Riverside, US | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| University of New Hampshirelocation not on record | 1 |
| Cheney, US | 1 |
| Tacoma, US | 1 |
| Washington, US | 1 |
| Ypsilanti, US | 1 |
| West Virginia Wesleyan Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| DULlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fargo, US | 1 |
| San Angelo, US | 1 |
| Oswego, US | 1 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 1 |
| Waverly, US | 1 |
| Fayetteville, US | 1 |
| Flagstaff, US | 1 |
| GB | 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 Astragalus canadensis 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.