Collomia heterophylla is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name variableleaf collomia. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Idaho to central California, where it grows in several types of habitat, including open areas on gravelly mountain slopes. It is a hairy annual herb producing a branching, erect stem. As the common name suggests, the leaves are variable in shape, the lower generally with several toothed lobes and the upper sometimes lacking lobes. The inflorescence is a cluster of flowers emerging from the top of the stem or from the axil of a leaf. It may bear up to 25 flowers, each with star-shaped corolla at the tip of an elongated tube. The corolla lobes are lance-shaped and white to deep pink with white bases.
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 Collomia heterophylla has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens14
Marker genes5
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections12
Countries2
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.
★matK5★rbcL2★rbcLa★ITS3★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualCollomia heterophylla 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.
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy90% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 274≤1 km 230≤10 km 82>10 km 88
1 674 georeferenced · 545 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor2 219
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 accuracy59% within 1 km
≤100 m 45≤1 km 324≤10 km 236>10 km 25
630 georeferenced · 526 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 156
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 institutions42 of 63 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Corvallis, US
138
WTUlocation not on record
110
Arcata, US
108
Victoria, CA
101
Angwin, US
84
Pullman, US
81
Riverside, US
53
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
47
Claremont, US
38
Moscow, US
37
Provo, US
23
Santa Barbara, US
21
Portland, US
21
Davis, US
19
San Luis Obispo, US
17
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
10
CASlocation not on record
10
San Jose, US
10
San Francisco, US
9
Vancouver, CA
9
San Diego, US
7
Santa Cruz, US
5
Bloomington, US
5
Ashland, US
5
US
5
Wuzhou, CN
4
HJAEFlocation not on record
4
Boise, US
4
STNFlocation not on record
4
Bronx, US
4
ASUlocation not on record
3
DOI/NPS, Mount Rainier National Parklocation not on record
3
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
3
KNFHClocation not on record
3
Tacoma, US
3
Mlocation not on record
3
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
3
Cheney, US
2
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
2
Philadelphia, US
2
Northridge, US
2
Flagstaff, US
2
Bend, US
2
Portland, US
2
MeiseBGlocation not on record
2
Los Angeles, US
2
Columbia, US
2
Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record
1
Davenport, US
1
Saint Louis, US
1
Wlocation not on record
1
EL PASO, US
1
Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record
1
Wellington, NZ
1
University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record
1
Universität Göttingenlocation not on record
1
Whitehorse, CA
1
Mississippi State, US
1
Truckee, US
1
LDlocation not on record
1
Bangkok, TH
1
Pocatello, US
1
Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record
1
63 institutions · 1 050 of 1 156 vouchered records shown · 106 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA12 detections
Where the DNA of Collomia heterophylla 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 found12
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 12 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
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.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median11.7 °C 11.1–12.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter13.8 °C
Max temp (day)16.5 °C 16.4–16.6
Min temp (night)7.60 °C 6.40–8.70
Precipitation124 mm/mo 106–141
Air humidity63.2 %
Moisture balance17.6 mm/mo -3.30–38.5
Vapour deficit507 Pa 490–523
Wind speed2.20 m/s 1.80–2.70
Cloud cover46.6 % 41.7–51.5
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
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 375 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI12 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics14 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗