Carex lyngbyei
Hornem. · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Carex lyngbyei's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 803 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI9 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics17 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
giftgenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Carex lyngbyei is a species of sedge known by the common name Lyngbye's sedge. It is native to the west coast of North America from Alaska to California, where it "is the common sedge of the Pacific coastal salt marshes."Flora of North America It is also known from Greenland and Iceland. It prefers to grow in silty sediment rather than sandCarex Lyngbyei Soil Medium Experiment and in habitat with brackish water, such as salt marshes. This sedge produces stems 25 centimeters to well over one meter tall from a network of long rhizomes. The leaves have reddish brown sheaths which do not have spots. The inflorescence produces stiff, nodding spikes on peduncles. The fruit is coated in a leathery yellowish brown sac called a perigynium. This is a pioneer species, one of the first plants to colonize the mud of tidal flats in its range.Washington Plant Data Sheet
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology6
Life cycle & reproduction21
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment22
Physiology & chemistry17
Uses & economy12
Other traits5
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 Carex lyngbyei 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 Carex lyngbyei 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 763×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · Cave1956
2n 721×CCDB · fl-europaea
n 362×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74
polyploid1×GIFT · GIFT (floras)
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 803 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 95 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Garðabær, IS | 164 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 146 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 105 |
| Vancouver, CA | 76 |
| 73 | |
| Odawara, JP | 72 |
| Chicago, US | 65 |
| Corvallis, US | 46 |
| KIRMlocation not on record | 42 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 39 |
| Madison, US | 31 |
| SIHUlocation not on record | 29 |
| Kushiro City Museumlocation not on record | 27 |
| Victoria, CA | 27 |
| LDlocation not on record | 26 |
| Pullman, US | 25 |
| Anchorage, US | 22 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 18 |
| Nagano City, JP | 16 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 14 |
| Provo, US | 13 |
| Olocation not on record | 12 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 12 |
| CASlocation not on record | 11 |
| Sendai, JP | 11 |
| Sanda, JP | 10 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 10 |
| Bando, JP | 8 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 8 |
| Hokkaido University Botanic Gardenlocation not on record | 7 |
| Toyama, JP | 7 |
| Chiba, JP | 7 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 6 |
| Saint Louis, US | 6 |
| Flagstaff, US | 6 |
| Tsukuba, JP | 5 |
| Institute of the biological problems of the North FEB RASlocation not on record | 5 |
| Montréal, CA | 5 |
| Arcata, US | 5 |
| Bothell, US | 4 |
| Claremont, US | 4 |
| St. Paul, US | 4 |
| Jackson, US | 4 |
| JP | 4 |
| Riverside, US | 4 |
| Oregon State Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| Kiritappu Wetland National Trustlocation not on record | 3 |
| Moscow, US | 3 |
| Hokkaido University Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Royal British Columbia Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Tacoma, US | 3 |
| San Angelo, US | 3 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 2 |
| Uppsala, SE | 2 |
| Kew, GB | 2 |
| Davis, US | 2 |
| Fort Bragg, US | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 2 |
| Otaru, JP | 2 |
| Portland, US | 2 |
| DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record | 2 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 2 |
| Wlocation not on record | 2 |
| KR | 2 |
| Bronx, US | 2 |
| Knoxville, US | 2 |
| Madrid, ES | 1 |
| Tampa, US | 1 |
| Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record | 1 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 1 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 1 |
| Williamsburg, US | 1 |
| J.F.Oberlin Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Bloomington, US | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Dover, US | 1 |
| Nishihara, JP | 1 |
| Sagamihara, JP | 1 |
| Taipei, TW | 1 |
| Shinshu Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Montréal, CA | 1 |
| Phoenix, US | 1 |
| Akita Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Berlin, DE | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| Fukushima Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
| SEINetlocation not on record | 1 |
| New Haven, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Carex lyngbyei 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.