Ceanothus prostratus is a species of shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. Common names include prostrate ceanothus, pinemat, and mahala mat. It is native to the Pacific Northwest of the United States where it grows in coniferous forests and open plateaus.
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 Ceanothus prostratus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens1
Marker genes2
GenBank sequences2
eDNA detections1
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.
★ITS2★ITS2
fungal barcode
07Deep time~5.26 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 origin5.26 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 type3 207 records
Wild obs. + sensor2 447
Museum / vouchered760
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO6 480 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 accuracy89% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 516≤1 km 217≤10 km 129>10 km 86
1 948 georeferenced · 499 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor2 447
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 accuracy51% within 1 km
≤100 m 28≤1 km 241≤10 km 237>10 km 20
526 georeferenced · 234 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence760
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 institutions43 of 60 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
CASlocation not on record
72
Davis, US
63
Claremont, US
63
Arcata, US
60
Corvallis, US
53
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
45
Angwin, US
29
Riverside, US
27
WTUlocation not on record
23
Pullman, US
22
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
15
Bronx, US
12
San Diego, US
11
Truckee, US
10
Boise, US
8
Los Angeles, US
8
Fullerton, US
6
Moscow, US
6
San Jose, US
6
US
6
Saint Louis, US
5
Northridge, US
5
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
5
Santa Barbara, US
4
Portland, US
4
STNFlocation not on record
4
EL PASO, US
4
Wuzhou, CN
4
Christchurch, NZ
3
San Francisco, US
3
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
3
St. Paul, US
3
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
3
Flagstaff, US
3
Caldwell, US
2
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
2
Bloomington, US
2
Philadelphia, US
2
Wellington, NZ
2
Henderson, US
2
Tacoma, US
2
BOISlocation not on record
2
Cheney, US
2
Vancouver, CA
2
San Luis Obispo, US
2
Wlocation not on record
1
Pocatello, US
1
Orem, US
1
MeiseBGlocation not on record
1
PHlocation not on record
1
Bangkok, TH
1
GZUlocation not on record
1
KNFHClocation not on record
1
Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record
1
ASUlocation not on record
1
Long Beach, US
1
Mexico City, MX
1
Bend, US
1
Chadron, US
1
Durango, US
1
60 institutions · 635 of 760 vouchered records shown · 125 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Ceanothus prostratus 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 found1
Studies independent surveys1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 207 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗