Phlox hoodii, the spiny phlox or carpet phlox, is a species of phlox. It is a plant of western North America, where it is a common flower in sagebrush country, mostly growing in dry lithosol habitats. It is among the first plants to bloom in spring, after the snow has melted. Its distribution extends from Alaska to Arizona.US Forest Service Fire Ecology There are many subspecies. This perennial herb is variable in morphology, but usually forms a tight mat or loose clump on the ground. The short stems emerge from a woody taproot and caudex unit and the plant form is no more than 13 cm tall. The abundant tiny, sharp-pointed leaves are oppositely arranged and barely exceed 1 cm long. The herbage is hairy in texture, the hairs short to long, woolly to cobwebby. The appearance of the plant is almost mosslike until blooming.USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center The inflorescence is a solitary flower in shades of white, pink, or blue. It has a tubular throat about 1 cm long spreading into a flat five-lobed corolla.
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 Phlox hoodii has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens30
Marker genes5
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections17
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.
★matK1★rbcL6★rbcLa★ITS3★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualPhlox hoodii 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.
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 origin3.35 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 type8 255 records
Wild obs. + sensor7 151
Museum / vouchered1 104
Origin
Native601
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO12 488 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 accuracy93% within 1 km
≤100 m 4 674≤1 km 423≤10 km 191>10 km 199
5 487 georeferenced · 1 664 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor7 151
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 accuracy52% within 1 km
≤100 m 87≤1 km 171≤10 km 200>10 km 36
494 georeferenced · 610 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1 104
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 institutions58 of 87 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Missoula, US
85
Bozeman, US
71
Pullman, US
70
Moscow, US
66
WTUlocation not on record
62
Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record
50
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
50
Chadron, US
48
Boise, US
42
Pocatello, US
42
Provo, US
40
Logan, US
39
Spearfish, US
36
Denver, US
30
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
26
University of Lethbridgelocation not on record
21
Bronx, US
20
University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record
17
Riverside, US
17
Caldwell, US
14
Flagstaff, US
14
Wuzhou, CN
12
Victoria, CA
11
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
11
Corvallis, US
9
Bend, US
9
Grand Junction, US
9
Durango, US
9
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
9
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
9
Cheney, US
7
Claremont, US
7
Saint Louis, US
6
Université Lavallocation not on record
6
B.A. Bennett Herbariumlocation not on record
6
Albuquerque, US
6
Lincoln, US
6
Weber State Universitylocation not on record
5
US
5
San Francisco, US
5
Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record
5
Bloomington, US
5
Bureau of Land Managementlocation not on record
4
Emporia, US
4
Canadian Museum of Naturelocation not on record
4
Pittsburg, US
3
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record
3
Whitehorse, CA
3
Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record
3
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
3
Madison, US
3
Vancouver, CA
3
Tampa, US
2
Bandelier National Monumentlocation not on record
2
ASUlocation not on record
2
South Kensington, GB
2
Tacoma, US
2
Bangkok, TH
2
WINlocation not on record
2
Columbia, US
2
Dekalb, US
2
BRNUlocation not on record
2
DOI/NPS, Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preservelocation not on record
1
Angwin, US
1
Davis, US
1
Paris, FR
1
Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record
1
US
1
Arcata, US
1
Xiamen, CN
1
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
1
Orem, US
1
Fullerton, US
1
Fargo, US
1
Portland, US
1
GAlocation not on record
1
St. Paul, US
1
Yukon Universitylocation not on record
1
EL PASO, US
1
San Luis Obispo, US
1
Ashland, US
1
Lubbock, US
1
Montréal, CA
1
Anchorage, US
1
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
1
Santa Barbara, US
1
AUAlocation not on record
1
87 institutions · 1 095 of 1 104 vouchered records shown · 8 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA17 detections
Where the DNA of Phlox hoodii 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 found17
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 17 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 countries0
Loose, rocky slopes above road, soil reddish.Dry grassland dominated by Festuca scabrella…SSW facing <20° slope. Hot dry baking with …Roadside. Low rolling hills; sandy white soi…Open grasy knoll near main gate. Shortgrass …Rock outcrops of south-facing slope with Cal…
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 median9.60 °C 5.60–15.4
Seasonal swing summer↔winter31.7 °C
Max temp (day)15.6 °C 8.00–21.3
Min temp (night)4.30 °C 1.90–9.20
Precipitation50.7 mm/mo 29.0–68.7
Air humidity54.6 % 50.0–66.8
Moisture balance-61.5 mm/mo
Vapour deficit587 Pa 304–853
Wind speed3.50 m/s
Cloud cover42.7 % 37.1–71.4
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 14 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 Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility8 255 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI17 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics30 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↗