Lactuca sibirica
(L.) Benth. ex Maxim. · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Lactuca sibirica's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility6 184 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotypeEvery layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Lactuca sibirica, the Siberian lettuce, is a species of wild lettuce native to Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, all parts of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the northern half of China, the Korean peninsula, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Japan. It is the host of the systemic rust fungi Puccinia minussensis, which propagates with it along its ramets, resulting in complex host-parasite interactions.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology16
Life cycle & reproduction6
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry1
Compounds documented for Lactuca sibirica across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile2 classes
Documented compounds9 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-[[(1S,3R,3aS,4S,6S,6aS)-3-hydroxy-1,4-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,3,3a,4,6,6a-hexahydrofuro[3,4-c]furan-6-yl]oxy]-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol | present | LOTUS | |
| 11beta,13-Dihydrolactucin | present | LOTUS | |
| 8-Deoxylactucin | present | LOTUS | |
| [(2R,3S,4S,5R,6S)-6-[[(1S,3R,3aS,4S,6S,6aS)-3-hydroxy-1,4-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,3,3a,4,6,6a-hexahydrofuro[3,4-c]furan-6-yl]oxy]-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]methyl 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)acetate | present | LOTUS | |
| [(2R,3S,4S,5R,6S)-6-[[(1S,3R,3aS,4S,6S,6aS)-3-hydroxy-1,4-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,3,3a,4,6,6a-hexahydrofuro[3,4-c]furan-6-yl]oxy]-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]methyl 2-(4-methoxyphenyl)acetate | present | LOTUS | |
| Crepidiaside B | present | LOTUS | |
| Jacquinelin | present | LOTUS | |
| Lactucaside | present | LOTUS | |
| Ncgc00385202-01_C21H28O9_ | 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 Lactuca sibirica 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 Lactuca sibirica 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 1812×CCDB · iapt · CCDB · book-ipcn65 · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +2
2n 273×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
2n 141×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
Record type6 184 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 institutions26 of 62 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 330 |
| Kuopio, FI | 242 |
| Oulu, FI | 241 |
| LDlocation not on record | 114 |
| Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinicalocation not on record | 72 |
| Central China Normal Universitylocation not on record | 67 |
| Turku, FI | 41 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 29 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 26 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 20 |
| ENTClocation not on record | 16 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 15 |
| Beijing, CN | 12 |
| Kushiro City Museumlocation not on record | 12 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 11 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 10 |
| Tsukuba, JP | 9 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 9 |
| KIRMlocation not on record | 8 |
| Tartu, EE | 8 |
| Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 8 |
| Philadelphia, US | 7 |
| Xining, CN | 7 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Forest Survey and Design Institute, Forestry Administrative Bureau of Daxinganlinglocation not on record | 7 |
| NSMKlocation not on record | 6 |
| Helsinki, FI | 6 |
| Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record | 4 |
| SIHUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Uppsala, SE | 3 |
| Tallinn, EE | 3 |
| Québec, CA | 3 |
| Inner Mongolia Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Nanjing, CN | 3 |
| Stockholm, SE | 2 |
| MAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Wlocation not on record | 2 |
| 盐城国家级珍禽自然保护区location not on record | 2 |
| 东北师范大学自然博物馆location not on record | 2 |
| Kyoto Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Servico de Microbiologia e Imunologialocation not on record | 2 |
| Columbia, US | 2 |
| Nanjing, CN | 2 |
| WNNUlocation not on record | 2 |
| Porvoo, FI | 2 |
| KIWElocation not on record | 1 |
| Peking Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 1 |
| nlocation not on record | 1 |
| Awka, NG | 1 |
| Yangling, CN | 1 |
| Nishihara, JP | 1 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Görlitz, DE | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 1 |
| Kiritappu Wetland National Trustlocation not on record | 1 |
| Institute of the biological problems of the North FEB RASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bando, JP | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 1 |
| Gifu prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation 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 Lactuca sibirica 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.