Clematis alpina
(L.) Mill. · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Clematis alpina's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation11 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility27 166 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotypeEvery layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Clematis alpina, the Alpine clematis, is a flowering deciduous vine of the genus Clematis. Like many members of that genus, it is prized by gardeners for its showy flowers. It bears 1 to 3-inch spring flowers on long stalks in a wide variety of colors. C. alpina is native to Europe; in the United States it grows best in American Horticultural Society zones 9 to 6, which are generally found in the southern USA. Cultivars include the pale pink 'Willy,' dark blue 'Helsingborg,' and lavender blue 'Pamela Jackman.' Clematis alpina 'Pamela Jackman' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology22
Life cycle & reproduction8
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry5
Other traits1
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 Clematis 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 Clematis 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.
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 1626×CCDB · slov-fl · CCDB · iapt · CCDB · fl-europaea +8
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 type27 166 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 institutions31 of 62 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Salzburg, AT | 188 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 110 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 45 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 36 |
| LDlocation not on record | 31 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 28 |
| Bern, CH | 25 |
| Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowielocation not on record | 22 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 20 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 18 |
| Chiba, JP | 18 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 17 |
| Wlocation not on record | 16 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 15 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 15 |
| Olocation not on record | 14 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 9 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 9 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 8 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 7 |
| PRClocation not on record | 6 |
| Beijing, CN | 5 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 4 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| Zürich, CH | 4 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 4 |
| Trondheim, NO | 3 |
| BClocation not on record | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 3 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 3 |
| Tartu, EE | 3 |
| MAlocation not on record | 2 |
| nbflocation not on record | 2 |
| Dresden, DE | 2 |
| Claremont, US | 2 |
| Tilburg, NL | 2 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 2 |
| Burlington, US | 2 |
| Auckland, NZ | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 2 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 2 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 1 |
| Brookings, US | 1 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 1 |
| Dhaka, BD | 1 |
| Görlitz, DE | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
| Boise, US | 1 |
| Herb. BBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Loja, EC | 1 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Victoria, CA | 1 |
| Bergen, NO | 1 |
| “Manash Kozybayev North Kazakhstan University" NPLClocation not on record | 1 |
| Sion, CH | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Berlin, DE | 1 |
| Tampa, US | 1 |
| Denver, US | 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 Clematis 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?
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.