Caucalis platycarpos
speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Caucalis platycarpos's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility18 305 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI19 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 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
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.
Caucalis platycarpos is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, the only member of the genus Caucalis. Common names are carrot bur parsley, small bur-parsley, and burr parsley. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East as far east as Iran.Tela Botanica, Caucalis à feuilles de carotte, Caucalis platycarpos L. in French with photo and French distribution mapAltervista Flora Italiana, Lappola carota, Kletten-Haftdolde, piggkörvel, Caucalis platycarpos L. Caucalis platycarpos is an annual up to tall with trailing stems. Leaves are highly divided into many small leaflets. Flowers are produced in an umbel of 2 to 5 flowers, each with white or pink petals. Fruit is an oblong capsule with many hooked spines on the surface.Herbario de la Universidad Pública de Navarra, Flora Arvense de Navarra, familia Umbelliferae, Caucalis platycarpos L. in Spanish, with photos
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology6
Life cycle & reproduction12
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment10
Physiology & chemistry2
Other traits1
Compounds documented for Caucalis platycarpos across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile1 class
Documented compounds1 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-6-[[(2R,3R,4R,5R,6S)-3,4-dihydroxy-5,6-dimethyloxan-2-yl]oxymethyl]-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]oxy-5-hydroxy-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)chromen-4-one | present | LOTUS |
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 Caucalis platycarpos 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 Caucalis platycarpos 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 209×CCDB · slov-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +3
2n 182×CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
2n 161×CCDB · ita-fl
n 103×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-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.
Record type18 305 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 institutions42 of 90 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| BFLlocation not on record | 134 |
| Berlin, DE | 96 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 93 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 91 |
| MAlocation not on record | 79 |
| València, ES | 76 |
| Zürich, CH | 72 |
| LDlocation not on record | 70 |
| South Kensington, GB | 63 |
| Zürich, CH | 60 |
| Barcelona, ES | 56 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 51 |
| Bern, CH | 45 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 44 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 44 |
| BClocation not on record | 42 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 40 |
| Vitoria, ES | 30 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 30 |
| Wlocation not on record | 28 |
| Mlocation not on record | 22 |
| Olocation not on record | 22 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 20 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 18 |
| Salamanca, ES | 18 |
| PRClocation not on record | 17 |
| Madrid, ES | 15 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 14 |
| KFGBlocation not on record | 13 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 12 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 12 |
| Bergen, NO | 10 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 9 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 9 |
| Fulda, DE | 8 |
| Jaén, ES | 8 |
| Pamplona, ES | 8 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 7 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 7 |
| Granada, ES | 7 |
| Pamplona, ES | 7 |
| Alicante, ES | 7 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 7 |
| Görlitz, DE | 6 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 5 |
| Trondheim, NO | 5 |
| Oulu, FI | 5 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| Sion, CH | 4 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 4 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 4 |
| Kostrzyca Forest Gene Banklocation not on record | 3 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 3 |
| Brussel, BE | 3 |
| Palacký University in Olomouclocation not on record | 3 |
| Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record | 2 |
| Salzburg, AT | 2 |
| Museo della Bonifica di San Donà di Piavelocation not on record | 2 |
| Pretoria, ZA | 2 |
| Turku, FI | 2 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 2 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 2 |
| EEZA-CSIClocation not on record | 2 |
| BG-NMNHSlocation not on record | 2 |
| FLADlocation not on record | 2 |
| H-AkrKGlocation not on record | 2 |
| Universität Erlangen-Nürnberglocation not on record | 2 |
| Glarus, CH | 2 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 2 |
| Helsinki, FI | 2 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 2 |
| Dresden, DE | 2 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 1 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lausanne, CH | 1 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 1 |
| Sevilla, ES | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Badajoz, ES | 1 |
| Bronx, US | 1 |
| Bourges, FR | 1 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 1 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| Córdoba, AR | 1 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 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 Caucalis platycarpos 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.