Pedicularis attollens is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common name little elephant's head. It is native to Oregon and California, where it grows in moist mountainous areas such as meadows and bogs. It is a perennial herb growing up to 60 cm in maximum height with one or more stems emerging from a caudex. The leaves are comblike, divided into many linear lobes. The inflorescence is a raceme occupying the top of the stem. The sepals of the flowers and the bracts between them are woolly. The flower is under 1 cm long and divided into a curving trunklike upper lip and a three-lobed lower lip. It is pink or purplish in color with darker stripes. The fruit is a capsule up to 1 cm long containing seeds with netlike surfaces.
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 Pedicularis attollens has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens3
Marker genes3
GenBank sequences7
eDNA detections3
Countries1
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.
★matK3★rbcL1★ITS3
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualPedicularis attollens 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 = 16 n = 8
Ploidydiploid inferred
Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references
n 81×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Chuang, T. I. & L. R. Heckard. 1992. Chromosome numbers of some North American Scrophulariaceae, mostly Californian. Madroño 39(2): 137–149.
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 accuracy91% within 1 km
≤100 m 861≤1 km 147≤10 km 62>10 km 37
1 107 georeferenced · 330 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 437
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 accuracy58% within 1 km
≤100 m 8≤1 km 209≤10 km 148>10 km 10
375 georeferenced · 147 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence522
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 institutions33 of 48 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
56
Corvallis, US
34
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
34
Davis, US
32
Fredericton Stock Culture Collectionlocation not on record
25
Arcata, US
23
Riverside, US
20
Santa Barbara, US
15
Bronx, US
14
CASlocation not on record
12
WTUlocation not on record
10
Los Angeles, US
9
Angwin, US
8
Pullman, US
7
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
7
San Diego, US
7
Bend, US
6
San Jose, US
6
New Haven, US
5
San Luis Obispo, US
4
US
4
Boise, US
4
Wuzhou, CN
4
San Francisco, US
4
Bloomington, US
4
Ashland, US
3
STNFlocation not on record
2
Northridge, US
2
Wellington, NZ
2
ASUlocation not on record
2
Truckee, US
2
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
2
Davenport, US
2
Weber State Universitylocation not on record
1
Wlocation not on record
1
Long Beach, US
1
Portland, US
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
Mexico City, MX
1
INFlocation not on record
1
Henderson, US
1
Phoenix, US
1
Irvine, US
1
EL PASO, US
1
HJAEFlocation not on record
1
University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record
1
Cheney, US
1
GZUlocation not on record
1
48 institutions · 386 of 522 vouchered records shown · 136 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA3 detections
Where the DNA of Pedicularis attollens 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 found3
Studies independent surveys1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 3 detections have coordinates
Open the map0 countries0
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.
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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 959 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 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