Kummerowia stipulacea
(Maxim.) Makino · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Kummerowia stipulacea's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 838 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI7 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 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↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Kummerowia stipulacea is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Korean clover. It is native to China, Japan, Korea, and Russia, and it is present in the eastern United States as an introduced species.Kummerowia stipulacea. Flora of China. This annual herb grows prostrate, spreading, or erect stems. It grows up to 60 centimeters tall. The leaves are made up of three oval leaflets. One to five flowers occur in the leaf axils. There are cleistogamous flowers, which self-fertilize and never open, and chasmogamous flowers, which open and receive pollen from other plants.Gucker, Corey L. 2010. Kummerowia stipulacea and K. striata. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory. The latter flower type is purple-blue in color.Kummerowia stipulacea. USDA Plant Fact Sheet. The fruit is a small legume pod containing one seed. Though it often co-occurs with its congener Kummerowia striata, it is easily identified by large papery stipules which are especially visible for young leaves. This plant was introduced to the United States when it was intentionally planted in Arlington, Virginia, by the USDA in 1919. This species and Japanese clover were used to revegetate abandoned coal mine sites. Its seed was spread to attract wildlife and as a forage for livestock. It was used to prevent erosion along roadsides. It was planted in rotation with cereal crops to enhance the soil. It persisted and spread. Today this plant grows in the wild and provides food for a number of mammal and bird species. It is also a high-quality livestock forage. The seed is still sold for planting. Three cultivars are available: "Climax", "Harbin", and "Rowan". Despite its status as a weed in some areas, it is not very aggressive and not considered a noxious weed.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology6
Life cycle & reproduction26
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment24
Physiology & chemistry24
Uses & economy15
Other traits4
Compounds documented for Kummerowia stipulacea across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile1 class
Documented compounds2 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| alpha-Catechin | present | LOTUS | |
| Catechin | 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 Kummerowia stipulacea 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 Kummerowia stipulacea 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 203×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-indian_vol1 · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
n 111×CCDB · Cannon, 2015
polyploid 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 type2 838 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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions95 of 154 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Beijing, CN | 202 |
| Yangling, CN | 153 |
| Odawara, JP | 109 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 76 |
| Nanjing, CN | 73 |
| Wuhan, CN | 62 |
| Kunming, CN | 53 |
| Nagano City, JP | 53 |
| Shinshu Universitylocation not on record | 46 |
| Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinicalocation not on record | 45 |
| Bloomington, US | 33 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 31 |
| Saint Louis, US | 30 |
| Chiba, JP | 30 |
| Chengdu, CN | 29 |
| Tokushima, JP | 27 |
| Northeastern Forestry Universitylocation not on record | 26 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 24 |
| National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record | 22 |
| Kochi, JP | 21 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 20 |
| Kawasaki Shi Tama Ku, JP | 20 |
| Tomioka, JP | 18 |
| WNNUlocation not on record | 18 |
| Emporia, US | 16 |
| Pittsburg, US | 15 |
| Guilin, CN | 15 |
| Chengdu, CN | 14 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 13 |
| Hangzhou, CN | 11 |
| ENTClocation not on record | 11 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 11 |
| JP | 10 |
| Sendai, JP | 9 |
| Jackson, US | 9 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 9 |
| Nishihara, JP | 9 |
| Shanghai, CN | 8 |
| Xining, CN | 8 |
| Hiratsuka City Museumlocation not on record | 8 |
| Anhui Normal Universitylocation not on record | 8 |
| Tsukuba, JP | 8 |
| Shanghai, CN | 8 |
| Beijing Normal Universitylocation not on record | 7 |
| Morgantown, US | 7 |
| Dekalb, US | 7 |
| Kyoto Universitylocation not on record | 7 |
| Xiamen, CN | 6 |
| Williamsburg, US | 6 |
| Xian, CN | 6 |
| Fukushima Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 5 |
| Xian, CN | 5 |
| Xinxiang, CN | 5 |
| Madison, US | 5 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 5 |
| Springfield, US | 5 |
| Chadron, US | 5 |
| Zhengzhou, CN | 5 |
| Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 5 |
| Parthenon Tama History Museumlocation not on record | 5 |
| Guiyang, CN | 5 |
| Provo, US | 5 |
| Universidad Católica de Santa Maríalocation not on record | 5 |
| Forest Survey and Design Institute, Forestry Administrative Bureau of Daxinganlinglocation not on record | 5 |
| Fayetteville, US | 4 |
| Berlin, DE | 4 |
| San Angelo, US | 4 |
| Mississippi State, US | 4 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 4 |
| Kirksville, US | 4 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 4 |
| Awka, NG | 4 |
| New Brunswick, US | 4 |
| Central China Normal Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| Jiangxi College of Educationlocation not on record | 4 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 4 |
| Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record | 4 |
| Philadelphia, US | 3 |
| Sagamihara, JP | 3 |
| Osaka, JP | 3 |
| EL PASO, US | 3 |
| Toyama, JP | 3 |
| Bando, JP | 3 |
| Valdosta State Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Taipei, TW | 3 |
| Little Rock, US | 3 |
| Jefferson City, US | 3 |
| Taipei, TW | 3 |
| KOMlocation not on record | 3 |
| Philadelphia, US | 3 |
| Lanzhou, CN | 2 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 2 |
| Nagatoro-machi, Chichibu-gun, JP | 2 |
| Albuquerque, US | 2 |
| KR | 2 |
| Toyota city nature sanctuarylocation not on record | 2 |
| LDlocation not on record | 2 |
| Bronx, US | 2 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 2 |
| College Park, US | 2 |
| Iwate Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Fort Worth, US | 2 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 2 |
| University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record | 2 |
| Millersville, US | 2 |
| Fairfax, US | 2 |
| Austin, US | 2 |
| Jishou Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Seoul, KR | 2 |
| Lincoln, US | 2 |
| Tianjin Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| KURAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Jiangxi Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Clemson, US | 2 |
| JMSlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fujian Institute of Subtropical Botanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Hebei Normal Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Green Bay, US | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Beijing Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Wuhan, CN | 1 |
| Shanxi Institute of Biologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Nanjing, CN | 1 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 1 |
| Zhejiang Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| NEAUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Shanxi Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Claremont, US | 1 |
| Lord Fairfax Community Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| Norfolk, US | 1 |
| Burlington, US | 1 |
| Tempe, US | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| Mie Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Korea National Arboretumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Minia, EG | 1 |
| Tennessee Technological Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| FFPRIlocation not on record | 1 |
| J.F.Oberlin Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Taipei, TW | 1 |
| GB | 1 |
| Capital Normal Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Hangzhou Normal Collegelocation not on record | 1 |
| GAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Riverside, US | 1 |
| Omachi Alpine Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cascavel, BR | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, US | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Uppsala, SE | 1 |
| North Carolina Zoological Parklocation not on record | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| Richmond, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Kummerowia stipulacea 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?
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.