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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements3 literature sources12 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF621 records
DNA & barcodingNCBIsequences
01Narrative
Phlox pulvinata is a species of phlox known by the common name cushion phlox. It is native to the western United States where it grows in mountain and plateau habitat, in rocky subalpine and alpine climates, including exposed tundra habitat. It is a perennial herb taking a flat, dense, cushionlike form on the ground. Its very short stems are lined with hair-fringed lance-shaped leaves each no more than 1 cm long. The plant is among the first to flower in the spring in many areas. It blooms densely, forming carpets of flowers. Each white to pale pink flower has a tubular throat up to 1 cm long and 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 pulvinata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
Marker genes1
GenBank sequences1
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.
★ITS1
fungal barcode
07Deep time~2.56 Ma lineage
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 origin2.56 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 type621 records
Wild obs. + sensor211
Museum / vouchered410
Origin
Native9
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 632 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 accuracy77% within 1 km
≤100 m 96≤1 km 17≤10 km 8>10 km 26
147 georeferenced · 64 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor211
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 accuracy68% within 1 km
≤100 m 16≤1 km 109≤10 km 57>10 km 3
185 georeferenced · 225 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence410
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 institutions32 of 39 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Moscow, US
77
Bronx, US
60
Missoula, US
49
WTUlocation not on record
23
Provo, US
18
Durango, US
16
Pullman, US
15
Orem, US
15
Bozeman, US
12
Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record
12
GB
10
Albuquerque, US
9
Wuzhou, CN
9
Logan, US
8
Riverside, US
8
Corvallis, US
7
Boise, US
7
Denver, US
7
Claremont, US
6
Flagstaff, US
4
Davis, US
4
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
3
Pittsburg, US
3
Cheney, US
2
Pocatello, US
2
Tempe, US
2
Tampa, US
1
Arcata, US
1
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
1
Austin, US
1
Santa Barbara, US
1
ASUlocation not on record
1
CASlocation not on record
1
Henderson, US
1
Chadron, US
1
Spearfish, US
1
Walla Walla, US
1
INFlocation not on record
1
Northridge, US
1
39 institutions · 401 of 410 vouchered records shown · 9 without an institution code
