Homogyne alpina
(L.) Cass. · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Homogyne alpina's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility88 261 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI20 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics14 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & 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.
Homogyne alpina, the Alpine coltsfoot or purple colt's-foot, is a rhizomatous herb in the family Asteraceae, which is often used as an ornamental plant. In addition, this plant has purple-red flowers, and it is usually associated with the gall flies Ensina sonchi and Acidia cognata. Homogyne alpina is a perennial plant that reaches a height of 10 to 40 centimeters. The rhizome is creeping woolly and scaly. The stem is erect, reddish brown and often single head. It is hairy silvery-woolly, bare later and usually has 2 leaves on small scales. The leaves are basal, long-stalked, leathery, coarse and glossy dark green, the underside is lighter. The leaf blade is heart-kidney-shaped. The baskets have a diameter up to 25 mm. The bracts are single row, crowded and hairy brown-red woolly at the base. The flowers are reddish and longer than the basket case, the corners are purple. The fruits have a long hair crown. Flowering time is from May to August.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology8
Life cycle & reproduction11
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment6
Physiology & chemistry8
Other traits1
Compounds documented for Homogyne alpina across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile2 classes
Documented compounds5 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-Bakkenolide A | present | LOTUS | |
| 4,11,16-trione, 15,20-epoxy-15,20-dihydro-12-hydroxy-4-methyl-, (15beta,20R)- | present | LOTUS | |
| Euparin | present | LOTUS | |
| Homogynolide A | present | LOTUS | |
| Senkirkine | present | LOTUS |
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 Homogyne 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 Homogyne 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 1209×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +2
2n 1606×CCDB · slov-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 +1
2n 1403×CCDB · poland · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
n 604×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-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 type88 261 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 institutions39 of 81 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 | 1 633 |
| Salzburg, AT | 638 |
| Zürich, CH | 259 |
| Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 165 |
| Zürich, CH | 138 |
| Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowielocation not on record | 127 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 102 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 60 |
| Görlitz, DE | 51 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 47 |
| BClocation not on record | 44 |
| LDlocation not on record | 41 |
| Bern, CH | 40 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 36 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 33 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 32 |
| Barcelona, ES | 26 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 21 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 19 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 16 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 16 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 16 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 14 |
| València, ES | 13 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 13 |
| Glarus, CH | 12 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 12 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 12 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 11 |
| MAlocation not on record | 11 |
| Wlocation not on record | 11 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 10 |
| Dresden, DE | 7 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 6 |
| Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record | 5 |
| Mlocation not on record | 5 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 5 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 5 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 4 |
| Berlin, DE | 4 |
| Vitoria, ES | 4 |
| Madrid, ES | 4 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 3 |
| Oulu, FI | 3 |
| South Kensington, GB | 3 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Opolskilocation not on record | 2 |
| Salamanca, ES | 2 |
| Herb. BBGlocation not on record | 2 |
| Gijón, ES | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 2 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 2 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| Granada, ES | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Bourges, FR | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Jaén, ES | 1 |
| Sion, CH | 1 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 1 |
| Taipei, TW | 1 |
| Badajoz, ES | 1 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lausanne, CH | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Helsinki, FI | 1 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 1 |
| Boise, US | 1 |
| PRClocation not on record | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| Montréal, CA | 1 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| BG-NMNHSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation 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 Homogyne 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?
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.