Pentaglottis sempervirens
(L.) Tausch ex L.H.Bailey · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Pentaglottis sempervirens's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility161 761 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics14 specimens↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Pentaglottis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. It is represented by a single species, Pentaglottis sempervirens, commonly known as the green alkanet, evergreen bugloss or alkanet, and is a bristly, perennial plant native to Western Europe. It grows to approximately 60 cm (24") to 90 cm (36"), usually in damp or shaded places and often close to buildings. It has brilliant blue flowers, and retains its green leaves through the winter. The plant has difficulty growing in acidic soil (it is calcicolous). The name "alkanet" is also used for dyer's bugloss (Alkanna tinctoria) and common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis). Green alkanet is an introduced species in the British Isles.http://www.nhm.ac.uk/fff-pcp/glob.pl?report=Flora&Flora.[FloraNo]=236800 The word "alkanet" derives from Middle English, from Old Spanish alcaneta, diminutive of alcana, "henna", from Medieval Latin alchanna, from Arabic al-ḥinnā’, "henna" : al-: "the" + ḥinnā’, "henna". The genus name Pentaglottis is Greek, meaning "five tongues", and the species name sempervirens is Latin, and means "always alive", or "evergreen". Green alkanet blooms in spring and early summer. Its stamens are hidden inside narrow flower-tubes which end in a white eye in the centre of a blue flower. Flower close-up Stalk and flowers Flower close-up
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology11
Life cycle & reproduction12
Diet & foraging2
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 Pentaglottis sempervirens 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 Pentaglottis sempervirens 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 2213×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · CCDB · brit-fl · CCDB · iber-fl +5
2n 161×CCDB · book-fedorov
n 111×CCDB · book-ipcn72
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
Record type161 761 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 institutions50 of 89 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 87 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 85 |
| MAlocation not on record | 49 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 36 |
| Corvallis, US | 31 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 28 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 27 |
| Hobart, AU | 24 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 24 |
| LDlocation not on record | 24 |
| DBF-NHMDlocation not on record | 22 |
| South Kensington, GB | 22 |
| Barcelona, ES | 19 |
| Vitoria, ES | 16 |
| Badajoz, ES | 15 |
| Paris, FR | 15 |
| Madrid, ES | 15 |
| Salamanca, ES | 14 |
| Wellington, NZ | 13 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 12 |
| BClocation not on record | 12 |
| València, ES | 11 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 10 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 10 |
| Olocation not on record | 10 |
| Portland, US | 10 |
| Brussel, BE | 10 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 9 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 9 |
| Pullman, US | 8 |
| OLAlocation not on record | 8 |
| Görlitz, DE | 7 |
| Bergen, NO | 6 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 6 |
| Auckland, NZ | 6 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 6 |
| Wlocation not on record | 5 |
| Portland, US | 5 |
| San Sebastián, ES | 5 |
| Vancouver, CA | 5 |
| QVMAGlocation not on record | 4 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 4 |
| Boise, US | 4 |
| Tilburg, NL | 3 |
| University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 3 |
| Granada, ES | 3 |
| Alicante, ES | 3 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 2 |
| Saint Louis, US | 2 |
| Flagstaff, US | 2 |
| Berlin, DE | 2 |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanoogalocation not on record | 2 |
| Canberra, AU | 2 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 2 |
| Pamplona, ES | 2 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 1 |
| CIBIOlocation not on record | 1 |
| Riverside, US | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Henderson, US | 1 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
| Claremont, US | 1 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universität Göttingenlocation not on record | 1 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 1 |
| Meguro Parasitological Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Gijón, ES | 1 |
| Banyoles, ES | 1 |
| Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resourceslocation not on record | 1 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 1 |
| Henry Brockhouse Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego, US | 1 |
| Clemson, US | 1 |
| Madrid, ES | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 1 |
| Bourges, FR | 1 |
| Bern, CH | 1 |
| Minia, EG | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Coimbra, PT | 1 |
| RJBJCIlocation not on record | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 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 Pentaglottis sempervirens 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.