Cicerbita alpina
(L.) Wallr. · speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Cicerbita alpina's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility37 504 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI18 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics26 specimens↗
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↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Cicerbita alpina, commonly known as the alpine sow-thistle or alpine blue-sow-thistle is a perennial herbaceous species of plant sometimes placed in the genus Cicerbita of the family Asteraceae, and sometimes placed in the genus Lactuca as Lactuca alpina.Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist It is native to upland and mountainous parts of Europe. It was once used as an herb in Sami cooking, and known as jierja.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology6
Life cycle & reproduction11
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry3
Compounds documented for Cicerbita alpina across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds14 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2E,4E,7S)-3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-2,4,10-triene | present | NPASS | |
| (2E,4E,7S)-3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-2,4-diene | present | NPASS | |
| (2Z,4E,7R)-3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-2,4,10-triene | present | NPASS | |
| (2Z,4E,7R)-3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-2,4-diene | present | NPASS | |
| (E,E)-7,11,15-Trimethyl-3-methylene-hexadeca-1,6,10,14-tetraene | present | NPASS | |
| (R,Z)-3-Hydroxy-3-methyl-1-((7-oxo-7H-furo[3,2-g]chromen-4-yl)oxy)butan-2-yl 2-methylbut-2-enoate | present | LOTUS | |
| 1,5,9-Cyclotetradecatriene, 13-isopropenyl-2,6,10-trimethyl-, (-)- | present | NPASS | |
| [(3aR,4S,9aS,9bR)-6-methyl-3-methylidene-2,7-dioxo-9-[[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxymethyl]-4,5,9a,9b-tetrahydro-3aH-azuleno[4,5-b]furan-4-yl] acetate | present | LOTUS | |
| beta-Farnesene | present | NPASS | |
| Imperatorin | 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 Cicerbita alpina 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 Cicerbita alpina 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.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
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 1828×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · slov-fl · CCDB · iber-fl +10
2n 162×CCDB · book-fedorov
2n 91×CCDB · book-ipcn73-74
n 93×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74
diploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
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.
Record type37 504 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 institutions37 of 72 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Olocation not on record | 575 |
| Trondheim, NO | 249 |
| Lausanne, CH | 85 |
| Bergen, NO | 84 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 76 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 69 |
| South Kensington, GB | 69 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 50 |
| Bern, CH | 45 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 44 |
| Görlitz, DE | 37 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 24 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 20 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 20 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 17 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 16 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 16 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 14 |
| Berlin, DE | 13 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 10 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 9 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 8 |
| Dresden, DE | 8 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 7 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 6 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 6 |
| Glarus, CH | 6 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 5 |
| nbflocation not on record | 5 |
| Barcelona, ES | 4 |
| Mlocation not on record | 4 |
| Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghlocation not on record | 3 |
| Sion, CH | 3 |
| Fulda, DE | 3 |
| Kandalaksha State Nature Reservelocation not on record | 3 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 3 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 3 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 2 |
| Dekalb, US | 2 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Columbia, US | 2 |
| Zürich, CH | 2 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 2 |
| Uppsala, SE | 2 |
| Tartu, EE | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 2 |
| Dhaka, BD | 2 |
| PRClocation not on record | 2 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 1 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| València, ES | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Vitoria, ES | 1 |
| Salamanca, ES | 1 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 1 |
| Fribourg, CH | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| MAlocation not on record | 1 |
| 1 | |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| FLADlocation not on record | 1 |
| Madrid, ES | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| EBlocation not on record | 1 |
| Göteborg, SE | 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 Cicerbita alpina 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.