Phlox longifolia
Nutt. · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Phlox longifolia's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility6 747 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI8 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics10 specimens↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & 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.
Phlox stansburyi is a species of phlox known by the common names cold-desert phlox and pink phlox. It is native to the southwestern United States from California to Utah to Texas, where it occurs in desert and plateau scrub and woodland habitat. It is a perennial herb taking an upright, branching form. The hairy linear or lance-shaped leaves are 1 to in length and oppositely arranged. The inflorescence bears one or more white to pink flowers with narrow, tubular throats which may exceed 3 cm in length. The base of the tube is encased in a calyx of keeled, ribbed sepals. The flower corolla is flat and five-lobed. In drier environments, the corolla-lobes may be narrower and curled, and the plant may be shorter or grow up through other shrubs. Small plant in flower, at ~5500 ft in Eastern Sierra
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology1
Life cycle & reproduction25
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment24
Physiology & chemistry20
Uses & economy14
Other traits6
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 longifolia 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 Phlox longifolia 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.
2n 284×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
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
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.
Record type6 747 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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions55 of 84 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Pullman, US | 236 |
| Moscow, US | 174 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 128 |
| Boise, US | 108 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 103 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 101 |
| Pocatello, US | 85 |
| Provo, US | 79 |
| Caldwell, US | 74 |
| Corvallis, US | 60 |
| Logan, US | 59 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 58 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 57 |
| Albuquerque, US | 57 |
| Victoria, CA | 56 |
| Flagstaff, US | 54 |
| Denver, US | 52 |
| Bozeman, US | 47 |
| Orem, US | 33 |
| Cheney, US | 31 |
| Phoenix, US | 26 |
| Missoula, US | 22 |
| Grand Junction, US | 19 |
| Riverside, US | 19 |
| Bronx, US | 18 |
| Pittsburg, US | 17 |
| Durango, US | 16 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 15 |
| Claremont, US | 12 |
| Tacoma, US | 12 |
| Walla Walla, US | 11 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 11 |
| Bend, US | 10 |
| Bandelier National Monumentlocation not on record | 9 |
| Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record | 9 |
| San Francisco, US | 9 |
| Chadron, US | 9 |
| IDElocation not on record | 6 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 6 |
| Portland, US | 5 |
| DOI/NPS, Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preservelocation not on record | 5 |
| Vancouver, CA | 5 |
| Davenport, US | 5 |
| Tampa, US | 4 |
| Tempe, US | 4 |
| Bloomington, US | 4 |
| Columbia, US | 4 |
| China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 3 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 3 |
| Madison, US | 3 |
| EL PASO, US | 3 |
| US | 3 |
| Austin, US | 2 |
| Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record | 2 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 2 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 2 |
| Bureau of Land Managementlocation not on record | 2 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 2 |
| Angwin, US | 2 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 1 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 1 |
| Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record | 1 |
| Yellowstone National Park Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Emporia, US | 1 |
| Macomb, US | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 1 |
| SEINetlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pacific Lutheran Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Cslocation not on record | 1 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| Millersville, US | 1 |
| San Jose, US | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 1 |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanoogalocation not on record | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Henderson, US | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Phlox longifolia 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.