Delphinium nudicaule

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ranunculales/Ranunculaceae/Delphinium

At a glance

Occurrence records5 352

Data sources12

Biological traits13

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections2

Sources12 archives

Databases and archives Delphinium nudicaule's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 352 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 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

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page7 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources13 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS15 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF5 352 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries2 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD · NCBI2 specimens

Genome at a glanceCCDB2n = 16

01Narrative

Delphinium nudicaule, known by the common names canyon larkspur, red larkspur, orange larkspur, and canyon delphinium, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is native to low-elevation canyons and slopes, foothills, and mountain ranges of California, US, from the Sierra Nevada to the California Coast Ranges, and of Oregon. It grows below 6500 ft.NPIN: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database — Delphinium nudicaule (Red larkspur) . accessed 1.10.2013 The plant sends up thin and long 1 – stems with finely dissected leaves. It bears attractive larkspur flowers in shades of red and orange that are generally pollinated by hummingbirds.Jepson Flora Project: Jepson eFlora — Delphinium nudicaule D. nudicaule readily hybridizes with several other species of Delphinium.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPTRYGIFT

Size & morphology3

Seed mass0.542 mg

Seed mass max0.542 mg

Seed mass min0.542 mg

Life cycle & reproduction2

Life formperennial

Life spanperennial

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment6

Aquaticterrestrial

Climatetemperate

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Growth formherb

Woodinessnon-woody

Physiology & chemistry1

Photosynthetic pathwayC3

03Chemical composition15 compounds

Compounds documented for Delphinium nudicaule across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile1 class

Terpenoid alkaloids15

Documented compounds15 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(1R,2R,3R,4R,5S,6S,8R,9R,10R,13S,16R,17S,18S)-11-ethyl-6,18-dimethoxy-13-methyl-11-azahexacyclo[7.7.2.12,5.01,10.03,8.013,17]nonadecane-4,8,9,16-tetrol	present	LOTUS
(1S,2R,3R,4R,5S,6R,8R,9S,10S,13R,16S,17R,18S)-11-ethyl-6,16,18-trimethoxy-13-methyl-11-azahexacyclo[7.7.2.12,5.01,10.03,8.013,17]nonadecane-4,8,9-triol	present	LOTUS
(1S,2R,3R,4S,5R,6S,8R,9S,10S,13S,16S,17R,18S)-11-ethyl-13-(hydroxymethyl)-4,6,16,18-tetramethoxy-11-azahexacyclo[7.7.2.12,5.01,10.03,8.013,17]nonadecane-8,9-diol	present	LOTUS
(1S,2R,3R,4S,5S,6S,8R,12R,13S,16S,19S,20R)-14-ethyl-6,19-dimethoxy-16-(methoxymethyl)-9,11-dioxa-14-azaheptacyclo[10.7.2.12,5.01,13.03,8.08,12.016,20]docosan-4-ol	present	LOTUS
(1S,2R,3R,4S,5S,6S,8R,9S,10S,13R,16S,17R,18S)-11-ethyl-6,16,18-trimethoxy-13-methyl-11-azahexacyclo[7.7.2.12,5.01,10.03,8.013,17]nonadecane-4,8,9-triol	present	LOTUS
(1S,2R,3R,4S,5S,6S,8R,9S,10S,13R,16S,17R,18S)-11-ethyl-6,18-dimethoxy-13-methyl-11-azahexacyclo[7.7.2.12,5.01,10.03,8.013,17]nonadecane-4,8,9,16-tetrol	present	LOTUS
(1S,2R,3R,4S,5S,6S,8R,9S,10S,13S,16S,17R,18S)-11-ethyl-13-(hydroxymethyl)-6,18-dimethoxy-11-azahexacyclo[7.7.2.12,5.01,10.03,8.013,17]nonadecane-4,8,9,16-tetrol	present	LOTUS
(1S,3S,5R,8R,9S,10R,11R,14R,16S,17R,18S,19S)-5-methyl-12-methylidene-7-azaheptacyclo[9.6.2.01,8.05,17.07,16.09,14.014,18]nonadecane-3,10,19-triol	present	LOTUS
(1S,5S,8R,9S,10S,11R,14R,16S,17R,18R,19R)-10,19-dihydroxy-5-methyl-12-methylidene-7-azaheptacyclo[9.6.2.01,8.05,17.07,16.09,14.014,18]nonadecan-3-one	present	LOTUS
10,19-Dihydroxy-5-methyl-12-methylidene-7-azaheptacyclo[9.6.2.01,8.05,17.07,16.09,14.014,18]nonadecan-3-one	present	LOTUS

05DNA & barcoding2 specimens

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 Delphinium nudicaule has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

Marker genes1

GenBank sequences3

eDNA detections2

The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species

ITSAF258751.1 ↗621 bp

ACGT

GTCGAAACCTGCCCAGCAGAGCGACCCGCGAACGAGTGAAAACAAACNGGGACGGAACGGNTGGGGGCGTCCGCCCCCGATCGGCCGTCC …

Delphinium nudicaule variety 5 18S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; internal transcribed spacer 1, complete sequence; 5.8S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence; internal transcribed spacer 2, complete sequence; and 28S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence

Marker genes sequenced

★ 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.

★ITS3

fungal barcode

06Genome at a glanceCCDB

The complete instruction manual Delphinium nudicaule 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.

Chromosomes2n = 16 n = 8

Ploidydiploid inferred

Chromosome records16–162n range16median16mode11records

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 1611×CCDB · eflora · CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants +1

CCDB · eflora

CCDB · book-fedorov — Tjebbes 1927, 1928

CCDB · book-fedorov — Lawrence 1936

CCDB · book-fedorov — Propach 1940a

CCDB · book-fedorov — Legro 1961

CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants — Lawrence 1936

CCDB · DCDB-2016 — Gregory, W. C. 1941. Phylogenetic and cytological studies in the Ranunculaceae. Trans. Amer. Phil. New Ser. 31: 443-520.

CCDB · DCDB-2016 — Lawrence, W. J. C. 1936. On the origin of new forms in Delphinium. Genetica 18: 109-115.

CCDB · DCDB-2016 — Legro, R. A. H. 1961. Species hybrids in Delphinium. Euphytica 10(1): 1-23.

CCDB · DCDB-2016 — Lewis, H., C. Epling, G. A. L. Mehlquist & C. G. Wyckoff. 1951. Chromosome number of californian Delphiniums and their geographical ocurrence. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 38: 101-117.

CCDB · DCDB-2016 — Propach, H. 1940. Einige chromosomenzahle von Delphinien. Gartenbauwissenschaft 14: 642-650.

n 81×CCDB · DCDB-2016

CCDB · DCDB-2016 — Tjebbes, K. 1927. The chromosomes of three Delphinium species. Hereditas 10(1-2): 160-164.

Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources

diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale

PloiDB · genus-scale — chromEvol; reliability=1.000 ↗

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type5 352 records

Wild obs. + sensor4 794

Museum / vouchered558

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO5 428 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 2 909≤1 km 483≤10 km 262>10 km 142

3 796 georeferenced · 998 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor4 794

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 accuracy60% within 1 km

≤100 m 21≤1 km 207≤10 km 139>10 km 10

377 georeferenced · 181 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence558

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 institutions35 of 48 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record	89
Arcata, US	89
Angwin, US	52
Davis, US	32
CASlocation not on record	21
Claremont, US	20
Santa Barbara, US	18
San Luis Obispo, US	15
Riverside, US	11
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record	10
San Diego, US	9
WTUlocation not on record	7
Santa Cruz, US	6
San Jose, US	6
Northridge, US	5
Wuzhou, CN	4
San Francisco, US	4
Irvine, US	4
Bloomington, US	4
Fullerton, US	4
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record	4
Bronx, US	3
Ashland, US	3
Pullman, US	3
Davenport, US	3
Bureau of Land Management, Medford District Officelocation not on record	3
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record	2
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record	2
Kew, GB	2
Portland, US	2
US	1
STNFlocation not on record	1
Mexico City, MX	1
Saint Louis, US	1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record	1
Moscow, US	1
Logan, US	1
Auckland, NZ	1
LDlocation not on record	1
Brookings, US	1
KNFHClocation not on record	1
South Kensington, GB	1
Vancouver, CA	1
EL PASO, US	1
Tampa, US	1
Chadron, US	1
Provo, US	1
ASUlocation not on record	1

48 institutions · 455 of 558 vouchered records shown · 103 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA2 detections

Where the DNA of Delphinium nudicaule 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 found2

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 2 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.

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Delphinium nudicaule

At a glance

Sources12 archives

Size & morphology3

Life cycle & reproduction2

Diet & foraging1

Habitat & environment6

Physiology & chemistry1

Compound class profile1 class

Documented compounds15 total

At a glance

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

Record type5 352 records

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions35 of 48 geolocated

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Record type5 352 records