Castilleja tenuis is a species of Indian paintbrush, known by the common name hairy Indian paintbrush. It is native to the Northwestern United States, California, Nevada, and British Columbia. It grows from 1000 - in a number of habitat types including meadows, especially in mountainous areas including the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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 Castilleja tenuis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens6
Marker genes4
GenBank sequences4
eDNA detections3
Countries1
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.
★rbcL1★rbcLa★ITS3★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceGoaT
The complete instruction manualCastilleja tenuis 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.
Ploidydiploid inferred
Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy88% within 1 km
≤100 m 415≤1 km 55≤10 km 31>10 km 36
537 georeferenced · 158 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor695
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 accuracy60% within 1 km
≤100 m 67≤1 km 332≤10 km 251>10 km 17
667 georeferenced · 554 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 221
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 institutions41 of 52 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
WTUlocation not on record
173
Corvallis, US
158
Pullman, US
122
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
101
Bronx, US
94
Davis, US
48
Caldwell, US
40
Boise, US
32
Claremont, US
30
CASlocation not on record
26
Riverside, US
26
Moscow, US
25
Provo, US
23
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
18
Santa Barbara, US
18
Arcata, US
17
San Diego, US
10
San Jose, US
10
Ashland, US
10
Pocatello, US
9
Portland, US
8
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
7
VALElocation not on record
6
San Luis Obispo, US
5
Bloomington, US
5
Bureau of Land Management, Medford District Officelocation not on record
4
STNFlocation not on record
4
Logan, US
4
Flagstaff, US
3
Henderson, US
3
Truckee, US
3
Cheney, US
3
US
2
Beijing, CN
2
SEFlocation not on record
2
EL PASO, US
1
Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record
1
Victoria, CA
1
Saint Louis, US
1
Missoula, US
1
Chadron, US
1
Los Angeles, US
1
Whitewater, US
1
College Park, US
1
Brookings, US
1
Cambridge, US
1
Irvine, US
1
US
1
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
1
Wuzhou, CN
1
Vancouver, CA
1
Austin, US
1
52 institutions · 1 068 of 1 221 vouchered records shown · 153 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA3 detections
Where the DNA of Castilleja tenuis 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 found3
Studies independent surveys1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 3 detections have coordinates
Open the map0 countries0
Swales in rolling basaltic area.
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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 916 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗