Pedicularis contorta is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae known by the common names coiled lousewort and curved-beak lousewort. It is native to western North America, including southwestern Canada and the northwestern United States, where it grows in moist mountainous habitat, such as bogs, shady forests, and meadows. It is a perennial herb producing one or more stems up to 40 cm tall from a caudex. The leaves are up to 18 cm long, lance-shaped to oblong, and divided into many linear lobes which may be toothed or smooth-edged. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers occupying the top of the stem. Each flower is a centimeter long or slightly longer, white to yellowish in color, and divided into a coiled or curved beak-like upper lip and a flat, three-lobed lower lip. The fruit is a capsule up to a centimeter long containing seeds with netted 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 contorta has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens7
Marker genes5
GenBank sequences8
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.
★matK2★rbcL2★rbcLa★ITS4★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualPedicularis contorta 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 82×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Reese, R. N. 1984. A new variety of Pedicularis contorta (Scrophulariaceae) endemic to Idaho and Montana. Brittonia 36(1): 63–66.
Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources
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
DNA clock origin11.7 Ma TimeTree
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.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type1 551 records
Wild obs. + sensor1 048
Museum / vouchered503
Origin
Native7
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 844 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 accuracy86% within 1 km
≤100 m 568≤1 km 96≤10 km 58>10 km 48
770 georeferenced · 278 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor1 048
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 accuracy50% within 1 km
≤100 m 17≤1 km 132≤10 km 140>10 km 11
300 georeferenced · 203 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence503
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 institutions41 of 55 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
WTUlocation not on record
110
Pullman, US
90
Moscow, US
44
Corvallis, US
34
Angwin, US
30
Bozeman, US
21
DOI/NPS, Mount Rainier National Parklocation not on record
19
Boise, US
18
Arcata, US
15
Bronx, US
10
Claremont, US
8
Pocatello, US
6
Tacoma, US
5
Missoula, US
5
Logan, US
5
Victoria, CA
5
Wuzhou, CN
4
ASUlocation not on record
4
University of Lethbridgelocation not on record
4
IDElocation not on record
3
CASlocation not on record
3
Cheney, US
3
Caldwell, US
3
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
3
University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record
2
University of Guelph, OAC Herbariumlocation not on record
2
Flagstaff, US
2
Davis, US
2
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
2
Weber State Universitylocation not on record
2
Philadelphia, US
2
Provo, US
2
Saint Louis, US
1
San Angelo, US
1
San Francisco, US
1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
1
New Haven, US
1
Xiamen, CN
1
Portland, US
1
Riverside, US
1
Vancouver, CA
1
Portland, US
1
Los Angeles, US
1
Minia, EG
1
Johnson City, US
1
San Luis Obispo, US
1
Denver, US
1
San Jose, US
1
HJAEFlocation not on record
1
Bloomington, US
1
Bangkok, TH
1
Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record
1
Phoenix, US
1
Ashland, US
1
Dekalb, US
1
55 institutions · 491 of 503 vouchered records shown · 12 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA5 detections
Where the DNA of Pedicularis contorta 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
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 median5.00 °C -2.20–12.1
Seasonal swing summer↔winter25.8 °C
Max temp (day)10.6 °C 3.10–18.1
Min temp (night)-0.5 °C -7.20–6.20
Precipitation45.6 mm/mo 33.1–58.1
Air humidity57.3 % 56.0–58.7
Moisture balance-43.8 mm/mo -68.8–-18.8
Vapour deficit449 Pa 241–657
Wind speed2.00 m/s 1.90–2.00
Cloud cover38.5 % 35.8–41.2
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 detection points · 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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation1 languages↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 551 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗