Mimulus ringens
speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Mimulus ringens's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility15 321 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics10 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Mimulus ringens is a species of monkeyflower known by the common names Allegheny monkeyflower and square-stemmed monkeyflower. It is native to eastern and central North America and to the Pacific coast of the United States, excluding Mexico and the arid American Southwest. It grows in a wide variety of moist to wet habitat types. Seeds are available from commercial suppliers. This is a rhizomatous perennial growing 20 cm to well over 1 meter tall, its 4-angled stem usually erect. The oppositely arranged leaves are lance-shaped to oblong, up to 8 cm long, usually clasping the stem. The sessile leaves of M. ringens help to distinguish it from its eastern relative, Mimulus alatus, which bears leaves on petioles and has a winged stem. The herbage is hairless. The flower is 1 - long, its tubular base encapsulated in a ribbed calyx of sepals with pointed lobes. The flower is lavender, blue, red or pink in color and is divided into an upper lip and a larger, swollen lower lip. One variety of this plant, var. colophilus, is rare, ecologically restricted, and vulnerable. It is known from Quebec, it has been reported in Vermont, and there are a few occurrences in Maine, where it grows only in freshwater sections of tidal estuaries. This variety is distinguished by having shorter calyces than the ringens variety and by its short flower pedicels, 1 - long versus a length of 2 - in the nominate subspecies. This plant variety faces several threats, but its current status is not known due to a lack of data.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology6
Life cycle & reproduction5
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry4
Other traits1
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 Mimulus ringens 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 Mimulus ringens 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 221×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
2n 241×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
n 81×CCDB · book-ipcn65
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.
How it livedPBDB
Record type15 321 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 institutions83 of 124 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Philadelphia, US | 388 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 329 |
| Québec, CA | 103 |
| Bloomington, US | 99 |
| University of New Hampshirelocation not on record | 82 |
| Bronx, US | 78 |
| Toronto, CA | 72 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 69 |
| Burlington, US | 61 |
| New Haven, US | 55 |
| Allentown, US | 51 |
| Bangkok, TH | 49 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 46 |
| Green Bay, US | 45 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 45 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 44 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 37 |
| Montréal, CA | 36 |
| Saint John, CA | 33 |
| College Park, US | 31 |
| Saint Louis, US | 30 |
| Williamsburg, US | 29 |
| Columbia, US | 23 |
| Knoxville, US | 22 |
| Dekalb, US | 21 |
| Lincoln, US | 15 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 15 |
| Staten Island, US | 15 |
| Madison, US | 15 |
| Keene State Universitylocation not on record | 13 |
| St. Paul, US | 13 |
| Denver, US | 12 |
| WINlocation not on record | 12 |
| GB | 11 |
| Millersville, US | 11 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 11 |
| Chadron, US | 10 |
| Davenport, US | 10 |
| Science Museum of Minnesotalocation not on record | 9 |
| Durham, US | 8 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 8 |
| Corvallis, US | 8 |
| Chicago, US | 7 |
| Whitewater, US | 7 |
| Washington, US | 7 |
| Clemson, US | 6 |
| Chicago, US | 6 |
| Lord Fairfax Community Collegelocation not on record | 6 |
| Royal Botanical Gardenslocation not on record | 5 |
| Vancouver, CA | 5 |
| GAlocation not on record | 5 |
| Philadelphia, US | 5 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| Richmond, US | 4 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 4 |
| Johnson City, US | 4 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 4 |
| US | 4 |
| US | 4 |
| Paris, FR | 4 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 4 |
| Hudson, US | 4 |
| Chicago, US | 3 |
| Ypsilanti, US | 3 |
| University of Guelph, OAC Herbariumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Flagstaff, US | 3 |
| Fargo, US | 3 |
| Mohonk Preservelocation not on record | 3 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record | 3 |
| Pullman, US | 3 |
| Moscow, US | 3 |
| Mlocation not on record | 3 |
| Mexico City, MX | 3 |
| Waverly, US | 3 |
| Trois-Rivières, CA | 2 |
| Provo, US | 2 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 2 |
| DULlocation not on record | 2 |
| Long Beach, US | 2 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 2 |
| Jackson, US | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 2 |
| Tennessee Technological Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Asheville, US | 2 |
| Portland, US | 2 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 2 |
| Fairfax, US | 2 |
| New Brunswick, US | 2 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 1 |
| Wlocation not on record | 1 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, US | 1 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| University of North Carolina at Pembrokelocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 1 |
| Turlock, US | 1 |
| Mount Pleasant, US | 1 |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanoogalocation not on record | 1 |
| Dover, US | 1 |
| McGill Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 1 |
| Spearfish, US | 1 |
| Hamilton, US | 1 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Missoula, US | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 1 |
| Kingston, US | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record | 1 |
| Edmonton, CA | 1 |
| Black Rock Forest Consortiumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Macomb, US | 1 |
| Bozeman, US | 1 |
| Maryland Department of Natural Resourceslocation not on record | 1 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 1 |
| Norfolk, US | 1 |
| Springfield, US | 1 |
| Cheney, US | 1 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 1 |
| Caldwell, US | 1 |
| Montréal, CA | 1 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation 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 Mimulus ringens 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.