Glechoma hederacea
speciesAt a glance
Sources15 archives
Databases and archives Glechoma hederacea's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation13 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 165 731 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI44 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics81 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
dukesphytochemcompounds
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.
Flower's appearance in visible, UVA, and NIR spectrums. The UV nectar guides may help attract bees. Glechoma hederacea is an aromatic, perennial, evergreen creeper of the mint family Lamiaceae. It is commonly known as ground-ivy, gill-over-the-ground, creeping charlie, alehoof, tunhoof, catsfoot, field balm, and run-away-robin. It is also sometimes known as creeping jenny, but that name more commonly refers to Lysimachia nummularia. It is used as a salad green in many countries. European settlers carried it around the world, and it has become a well-established introduced and naturalized plant in a wide variety of localities. It is also considered an aggressive invasive weed of woodlands and lawns in some parts of North America. In the absence of any biological control, research conducted by the USDA herbicides are relied upon (despite their drawbacks) particularly for woodland ecosystems. The plant's extensive root system makes it difficult to eradicate by hand-pulling.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology13
Life cycle & reproduction13
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment11
Physiology & chemistry9
Other traits2
Compounds documented for Glechoma hederacea across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds144 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| TANNIN | 70,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| POTASSIUM | 46,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| ROSMARINIC-ACID | 25,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| CALCIUM | 23,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| CHLORINE | 11,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| PHOSPHORUS | 3,500 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| SULFUR | 3,400 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| EO | 600 ppm | DukesPhytochem | |
| 2-BETA-HYDROXYURSOLIC-ACID | 600 ppm | DukesPhytochem |
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 Glechoma hederacea 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 Glechoma hederacea 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 3646×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · slov-fl +11
2n 1814×CCDB · slov-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +4
2n 243×CCDB · poland · CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
n 183×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
n 92×CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
tetraploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
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 type1 165 731 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 institutions216 of 363 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 8 078 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 563 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 493 |
| LDlocation not on record | 487 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 440 |
| Olocation not on record | 352 |
| Salzburg, AT | 281 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 223 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 209 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 196 |
| Oulu, FI | 182 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 180 |
| Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 168 |
| Bergen, NO | 161 |
| Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record | 158 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 143 |
| Turku, FI | 143 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 141 |
| Görlitz, DE | 130 |
| Trondheim, NO | 122 |
| Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowielocation not on record | 114 |
| St. Paul, US | 111 |
| Bloomington, US | 111 |
| Green Bay, US | 111 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 104 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 102 |
| Québec, CA | 97 |
| College Park, US | 97 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 87 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 81 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 72 |
| University of New Hampshirelocation not on record | 72 |
| Burlington, US | 70 |
| Bronx, US | 67 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 66 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 59 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 58 |
| Tartu, EE | 55 |
| Saint Louis, US | 55 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 55 |
| Millersville, US | 49 |
| South Kensington, GB | 49 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 49 |
| New Haven, US | 47 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 46 |
| Williamsburg, US | 45 |
| Kuopio, FI | 45 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 45 |
| Uppsala, SE | 44 |
| Pullman, US | 43 |
| Tallinn, EE | 41 |
| Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswaldlocation not on record | 40 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 39 |
| MAlocation not on record | 37 |
| Madison, US | 37 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 37 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 36 |
| Helsinki, FI | 35 |
| Montréal, CA | 34 |
| Saint John, CA | 34 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 33 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 32 |
| Bern, CH | 31 |
| Whitewater, US | 30 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 28 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 27 |
| Philadelphia, US | 27 |
| Vitoria, ES | 27 |
| Corvallis, US | 26 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 25 |
| Norfolk, US | 25 |
| Zhengzhou, CN | 23 |
| Mlocation not on record | 23 |
| Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical Universitylocation not on record | 22 |
| Columbia, US | 21 |
| Vancouver, CA | 21 |
| Tula State Universitylocation not on record | 20 |
| Wlocation not on record | 20 |
| Barcelona, ES | 20 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 19 |
| Berlin, DE | 19 |
| Dresden, DE | 19 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 19 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 17 |
| Stockholm, SE | 17 |
| Bangkok, TH | 17 |
| Allentown, US | 16 |
| Salamanca, ES | 16 |
| Porvoo, FI | 16 |
| Toronto, CA | 16 |
| Chadron, US | 15 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 14 |
| Portland, US | 14 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 14 |
| Bozeman, US | 14 |
| Montréal, CA | 14 |
| Moscow, US | 14 |
| València, ES | 13 |
| Hudson, US | 13 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 13 |
| Lord Fairfax Community Collegelocation not on record | 13 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 13 |
| Emporia, US | 13 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 12 |
| Auckland, NZ | 12 |
| Knoxville, US | 12 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 12 |
| Jackson, US | 12 |
| Durham, US | 12 |
| FJIDClocation not on record | 12 |
| Pittsburg, US | 12 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 11 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 11 |
| Beijing, CN | 11 |
| Chicago, US | 10 |
| Institute for Agricultural Bacteriology and Fermentation Biologylocation not on record | 10 |
| Fayetteville, US | 10 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 10 |
| Zürich, CH | 9 |
| Staten Island, US | 9 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 9 |
| BClocation not on record | 9 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 9 |
| Flagstaff, US | 8 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 8 |
| PrivatHerblocation not on record | 8 |
| University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record | 8 |
| Chicago, US | 8 |
| Dekalb, US | 8 |
| ZRC-SAZUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Urumqi, CN | 7 |
| DBF-NHMDlocation not on record | 7 |
| nbflocation not on record | 7 |
| UniKSlocation not on record | 7 |
| Wuhan, CN | 7 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 7 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 7 |
| Tilburg, NL | 7 |
| WNNUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Keene State Universitylocation not on record | 7 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 6 |
| Kirksville, US | 6 |
| Missoula, US | 6 |
| Tacoma, US | 6 |
| Taipei, TW | 6 |
| Washington, US | 6 |
| Forssa, FI | 6 |
| New Brunswick, US | 6 |
| Dover, US | 6 |
| Madrid, ES | 6 |
| Kew, GB | 6 |
| Arcata, US | 6 |
| Riverside, US | 6 |
| Wellington, NZ | 6 |
| DOI/NPS, Mississippi National River & Recreation Arealocation not on record | 5 |
| Canberra, AU | 5 |
| San Angelo, US | 5 |
| Macomb, US | 5 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 5 |
| Boise, US | 5 |
| WINlocation not on record | 5 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 5 |
| Granada, ES | 5 |
| China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| Minia, EG | 5 |
| Davenport, US | 5 |
| Bourges, FR | 5 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 5 |
| The Tula Region State Institution of Culture "Tula Museum Association"location not on record | 5 |
| Waverly, US | 5 |
| Denver, US | 5 |
| Fulda, DE | 5 |
| Spearfish, US | 4 |
| University of Birminghamlocation not on record | 4 |
| Winterthur, CH | 4 |
| GB | 4 |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanoogalocation not on record | 4 |
| Springfield, US | 4 |
| Morgantown, US | 4 |
| Victoria, CA | 4 |
| Smithsonian Institutionlocation not on record | 4 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 4 |
| Hangzhou, CN | 4 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 4 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 4 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 4 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 4 |
| Taipei, TW | 4 |
| Naturalis Biodiversity Centerlocation not on record | 4 |
| Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 4 |
| Philadelphia, US | 4 |
| Urumqi, CN | 4 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Fairfax, US | 4 |
| Uniwersytet w Białymstokulocation not on record | 4 |
| Zürich, CH | 4 |
| Servico de Microbiologia e Imunologialocation not on record | 4 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 4 |
| UoB-IBlocation not on record | 4 |
| Castelar, AR | 4 |
| Inner Mongolia Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 4 |
| Northridge, US | 4 |
| Prioksko-Terrasnyi Biosphere Reservelocation not on record | 4 |
| Jaén, ES | 4 |
| Claremont, US | 4 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 4 |
| OLAlocation not on record | 4 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 4 |
| GAlocation not on record | 4 |
| Davis, US | 4 |
| Puerto Ayora, EC | 4 |
| Pamplona, ES | 4 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 3 |
| Wuhan, CN | 3 |
| Institute of the biological problems of the North FEB RASlocation not on record | 3 |
| Pocatello, US | 3 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record | 3 |
| BGBMlocation not on record | 3 |
| Adelaide, AU | 3 |
| US | 3 |
| Johnson City, US | 3 |
| Glarus, CH | 3 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 3 |
| Xining, CN | 3 |
| Pamplona, ES | 3 |
| Guiyang, CN | 3 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 3 |
| Hobart, AU | 3 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 3 |
| Finnish Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 3 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Guelph, OAC Herbariumlocation not on record | 3 |
| James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studieslocation not on record | 3 |
| Paris, FR | 3 |
| Xiamen, CN | 3 |
| Trois-Rivières, CA | 3 |
| Fredericksburg, US | 3 |
| JP | 3 |
| Odawara, JP | 2 |
| Ivano-Frankove, UA | 2 |
| Otaru, JP | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Selma to Montgomery National Historic Traillocation not on record | 2 |
| Mohonk Preservelocation not on record | 2 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 2 |
| Mississippi State, US | 2 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 2 |
| Bend, US | 2 |
| Hamilton, US | 2 |
| UFOPlocation not on record | 2 |
| The State Museum-Preserve "The Kulikovo pole"location not on record | 2 |
| Namur, BE | 2 |
| Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record | 2 |
| CJBNlocation not on record | 2 |
| Kandalaksha State Nature Reservelocation not on record | 2 |
| Córdoba, AR | 2 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 2 |
| Guiyang, CN | 2 |
| Richmond, US | 2 |
| Cambridge, US | 2 |
| Gijón, ES | 2 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 2 |
| Fort Worth, US | 2 |
| Guilin, CN | 2 |
| Phoenix, US | 2 |
| Brisbane, AU | 2 |
| Armidale, AU | 2 |
| Kunming, CN | 2 |
| Asheville, US | 2 |
| Little Rock, US | 2 |
| Alicante, ES | 2 |
| Samara National Research Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Salvador, BR | 2 |
| Long Beach, US | 2 |
| Ypsilanti, US | 2 |
| West Virginia Wesleyan Collegelocation not on record | 2 |
| Oswego, US | 2 |
| FLADlocation not on record | 2 |
| Mount Pleasant, US | 2 |
| Edmonton, CA | 2 |
| Jurica-Suchy Nature Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 2 |
| Clemson, US | 2 |
| Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 2 |
| “Manash Kozybayev North Kazakhstan University" NPLClocation not on record | 1 |
| Durham, US | 1 |
| Science Museum of Minnesotalocation not on record | 1 |
| Yugra State University Biological Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| DULlocation not on record | 1 |
| Sion, CH | 1 |
| USFS/BHSClocation not on record | 1 |
| Göteborg, SE | 1 |
| Logan, US | 1 |
| Grand Junction, US | 1 |
| Kagoshima, JP | 1 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 1 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 1 |
| Baltimore, US | 1 |
| ULBF-AGRlocation not on record | 1 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Turlock, US | 1 |
| Podgorica, ME | 1 |
| UNIVASFlocation not on record | 1 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 1 |
| KR | 1 |
| Decorah, US | 1 |
| Nagatoro-machi, Chichibu-gun, JP | 1 |
| Brussel, BE | 1 |
| Caldwell, US | 1 |
| Tempe, US | 1 |
| Herbario Universidad de Concepciónlocation not on record | 1 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Jefferson City, US | 1 |
| University of Genevalocation not on record | 1 |
| Awka, NG | 1 |
| LINUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Shanghai, CN | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| Xian, CN | 1 |
| Jiangxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicinelocation not on record | 1 |
| San Isidro, AR | 1 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Firenze, IT | 1 |
| Universidad de La Salle (La Salle)location not on record | 1 |
| Los Angeles, US | 1 |
| Lincoln, US | 1 |
| ENTClocation not on record | 1 |
| IDElocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego, US | 1 |
| SWlocation not on record | 1 |
| AUT001location not on record | 1 |
| Mount Berry, US | 1 |
| San Francisco, US | 1 |
| PRClocation not on record | 1 |
| Orem, US | 1 |
| Nagano City, JP | 1 |
| San Jose, US | 1 |
| Sevilla, ES | 1 |
| McGill University, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Musée des Confluenceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Badajoz, ES | 1 |
| Tennessee Technological Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Nanjing, CN | 1 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Taipei, TW | 1 |
| University of New Englandlocation not on record | 1 |
| Banyoles, ES | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
| Royal Botanical Gardenslocation not on record | 1 |
| Kingston, US | 1 |
| Monastir, TN | 1 |
| National Botanic Garden of Waleslocation not on record | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Mount Rainier National Parklocation not on record | 1 |
| NTNU University Museum, Department of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Fargo, US | 1 |
| Tall Timbers Research Stationlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pacific Lutheran Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Walla Walla, US | 1 |
| Miami, US | 1 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 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 Glechoma hederacea 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.