Hepatica acutiloba
DC. · speciesAt a glance
Sources7 archives
Databases and archives Hepatica acutiloba's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility21 630 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI7 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics20 specimens↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Hepatica acutiloba, the sharp-lobed hepatica, is a herbaceous flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is sometimes considered part of the genus Anemone, as Anemone acutiloba, A. hepatica, or A. nobilis. Each clump-forming plant grows tall, flowering in the early to mid spring. The flowers are greenish-white, white, purple or pinkish in color, with a rounded shape. After flowering the fruits are produced in small, rounded columned heads, on pedicels 1 to 4 mm long. When the fruits, called achenes, are ripe they are ovoid in shape, 3.5 -4.7 mm long and 1.3-1.9 mm wide, slightly winged and tend to lack a beak. Hepatica acutiloba is native to central eastern North America where it can be found growing in deciduous open woods, most often in calcareous soils.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Life cycle & reproduction2
Habitat & environment3
Physiology & chemistry1
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 Hepatica acutiloba 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 Hepatica acutiloba 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 142×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
diploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
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 type21 630 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 institutions45 of 71 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 217 |
| Philadelphia, US | 132 |
| Green Bay, US | 121 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 77 |
| Québec, CA | 65 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 45 |
| Knoxville, US | 35 |
| Whitewater, US | 26 |
| Madison, US | 23 |
| Toronto, CA | 22 |
| Bangkok, TH | 18 |
| Montréal, CA | 17 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 17 |
| New Haven, US | 15 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 13 |
| Waverly, US | 9 |
| Richmond, US | 8 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Chicago, US | 7 |
| Flagstaff, US | 6 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 5 |
| St. Paul, US | 5 |
| Davenport, US | 5 |
| US | 5 |
| Staten Island, US | 5 |
| Keene State Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanoogalocation not on record | 4 |
| Jackson, US | 4 |
| Auckland, NZ | 4 |
| Williamsburg, US | 4 |
| Columbia, US | 3 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 3 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 3 |
| College Park, US | 3 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Johnson City, US | 2 |
| Boise, US | 2 |
| Paris, FR | 2 |
| Miami, US | 2 |
| Smithsonian Institutionlocation not on record | 2 |
| Tennessee Technological Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Burlington, US | 2 |
| Saint Louis, US | 2 |
| University of Guelph, OAC Herbariumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Oswego, US | 2 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| Valdosta State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 1 |
| James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studieslocation not on record | 1 |
| Logan, US | 1 |
| Fullerton, US | 1 |
| Washington, US | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 1 |
| China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Wisconsinlocation not on record | 1 |
| Taipei, TW | 1 |
| Decorah, US | 1 |
| McGill University, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 1 |
| Universite de Montreal, L'Herbier Marie-Victorinlocation not on record | 1 |
| Maryland Department of Natural Resourceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Hamilton, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| University of North Carolina at Pembrokelocation not on record | 1 |
| Wellington, NZ | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Vancouver, CA | 1 |
| inatura Erlebnis Naturschau GmbHlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pullman, 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 Hepatica acutiloba 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.