Pectocarya penicillata is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names sleeping combseed,Pectocarya penicillata. USDA Plants Profile. shortleaf combseed, winged combseedPectocarya penicillata. NatureServe. 2012. and northern pectocarya. It is native to much of western North America from British Columbia to Wyoming to Baja California, where it grows in many types of habitat, including disturbed areas such as roadsides. This is an annual herb producing a slender, rough-haired stem, mostly decumbent in form, to a maximum length of about 25 centimeters. The small, pointed linear leaves are alternately arranged, widely spaced along the stem. The inflorescence is a series of flowers, each on a curved pedicel. The flower has small green sepals and tiny white petals. The fruit is an array of four nutlets each lined with comblike prickles.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
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 Pectocarya penicillata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens10
Marker genes4
GenBank sequences7
eDNA detections5
Countries2
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ 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.
★rbcL1★rbcLa★ITS6★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualPectocarya penicillata 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.
Chromosomes2n = 24 n = 12
Ploidypolyploid inferred
Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references
n 122×CCDB · book-ipcn65
CCDB · book-ipcn65 — Raven et al. 1965; DiFulvio 1965a
Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy96% within 1 km
≤100 m 177≤1 km 13≤10 km 2>10 km 5
197 georeferenced · 110 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor307
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.
Coordinate accuracy60% within 1 km
≤100 m 62≤1 km 227≤10 km 170>10 km 25
484 georeferenced · 834 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 318
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions46 of 65 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Claremont, US
253
Riverside, US
220
San Diego, US
154
Santa Barbara, US
105
San Luis Obispo, US
42
Davis, US
39
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
33
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
31
Bronx, US
28
Pullman, US
27
Corvallis, US
18
Irvine, US
16
CASlocation not on record
15
US
15
WTUlocation not on record
12
Arcata, US
12
Provo, US
11
Pocatello, US
10
Los Angeles, US
9
Moscow, US
9
Angwin, US
9
Santa Cruz, US
9
Phoenix, US
8
EL PASO, US
8
Vancouver, CA
8
Henderson, US
8
ASUlocation not on record
7
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
7
Northridge, US
7
Boise, US
6
Flagstaff, US
5
Wuzhou, CN
5
Long Beach, US
5
Caldwell, US
4
Logan, US
4
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
3
Turku, FI
3
Bloomington, US
3
San Jose, US
3
Mexico City, MX
2
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
2
Burlington, US
2
MAlocation not on record
1
San Diego Natural History Museumlocation not on record
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
San Bernardino, US
1
Arizona State University Biocollectionslocation not on record
1
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
1
San Francisco, US
1
San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record
1
Jackson, US
1
Macomb, US
1
Victoria, CA
1
Pomona Collegelocation not on record
1
Arizona Western Collegelocation not on record
1
LDlocation not on record
1
Bangkok, TH
1
Austin, US
1
Missoula, US
1
Madison, US
1
Durango, US
1
La Paz, MX
1
Tacoma, US
1
Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (MNCR)location not on record
1
University of Nevadalocation not on record
1
65 institutions · 1 200 of 1 318 vouchered records shown · 118 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA5 detections
Where the DNA of Pectocarya penicillata 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
Detections DNA found5
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 5 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
flats and bouldery granitic hills, decompose…open roadside in relatively dry Douglas Fir …
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median16.0 °C 16.0–16.0
Seasonal swing summer↔winter19.7 °C
Max temp (day)23.2 °C
Min temp (night)9.00 °C
Precipitation14.2 mm/mo
Air humidity44.9 %
Moisture balance-141 mm/mo
Vapour deficit1,007 Pa
Wind speed4.50 m/s
Cloud cover35.2 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
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.
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BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 625 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 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
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗