Pedicularis centranthera is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common names dwarf lousewort and Great Basin lousewort. It is native to the western United States from eastern Oregon and California to Colorado and New Mexico, where it grows in sagebrush and other basin and plateau habitat. It is a perennial herb producing several short stems a few centimeters tall from a basal caudex. The leaves are up to 20 centimeters long, lance-shaped and divided into many overlapping toothed, wrinkled, or fringed lobes. The inflorescence is a short raceme bearing many long, protruding, club-shaped flowers. Each flower may exceed 4 centimeters in length and is white or pale purple with dark purple tips on the wide ends of its upper and lower lips. The sepals of the flowers are shorter and hairy. The fruit is a capsule around centimeter 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 centranthera has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens1
Marker genes2
GenBank sequences2
eDNA detections1
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.
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plant barcodefungal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 857 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 379
Museum / vouchered478
Origin
Native2
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO4 052 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy82% within 1 km
≤100 m 808≤1 km 107≤10 km 68>10 km 137
1 120 georeferenced · 259 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 379
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 accuracy47% within 1 km
≤100 m 28≤1 km 52≤10 km 81>10 km 8
169 georeferenced · 309 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence478
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 institutions31 of 45 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Bronx, US
78
Flagstaff, US
60
ASUlocation not on record
54
Provo, US
44
Logan, US
31
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
28
Albuquerque, US
24
Phoenix, US
23
Riverside, US
11
Claremont, US
10
Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record
10
Durango, US
9
Henderson, US
9
Corvallis, US
8
Wuzhou, CN
7
Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record
6
Denver, US
5
Boise, US
5
Moscow, US
4
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
4
Bangkok, TH
4
Mexico City, MX
4
US
3
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
3
Bloomington, US
3
Orem, US
3
San Luis Obispo, US
3
Pullman, US
3
Santa Barbara, US
2
Weber State Universitylocation not on record
2
USFSlocation not on record
2
Angwin, US
2
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
1
Saint Louis, US
1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
1
Caldwell, US
1
Bureau of Land Managementlocation not on record
1
Arcata, US
1
Dekalb, US
1
James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studieslocation not on record
1
WTUlocation not on record
1
Pocatello, US
1
Bend, US
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
EL PASO, US
1
45 institutions · 477 of 478 vouchered records shown · 1 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA1 detections
Where the DNA of Pedicularis centranthera 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 found1
Studies independent surveys1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 1 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 857 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗