Phyllodoce caerulea
(L.) Bab. · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Phyllodoce caerulea's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation11 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility24 125 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI27 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics53 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
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.
Phyllodoce caerulea, known as blue heath in British English and purple mountain heather or blue mountainheath in American English, is an evergreen species of dwarf shrub that grows up to around 15 cm tall, and bears clusters of 2–6 purple flowers. It is native to boreal regions around the Northern Hemisphere, but with large gaps in its distribution.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology15
Life cycle & reproduction8
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry7
Other traits1
Compounds documented for Phyllodoce caerulea across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile2 classes
Documented compounds2 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-Ursolic Acid | present | LOTUS | |
| Oleanolic acid | present | LOTUS |
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 Phyllodoce caerulea 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 Phyllodoce caerulea 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 2415×CCDB · nw-europe-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +6
n 122×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-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 type24 125 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 institutions59 of 116 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Olocation not on record | 436 |
| LDlocation not on record | 260 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 232 |
| Trondheim, NO | 191 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 168 |
| Bergen, NO | 103 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 100 |
| Québec, CA | 100 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 86 |
| Oulu, FI | 81 |
| Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinicalocation not on record | 72 |
| Turku, FI | 71 |
| Irkutsk State Universitylocation not on record | 46 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 42 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 41 |
| TUR-Alocation not on record | 40 |
| Kuopio, FI | 33 |
| Montréal, CA | 29 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 28 |
| Montréal, CA | 22 |
| Beijing, CN | 20 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 19 |
| Vancouver, CA | 19 |
| 东北师范大学自然博物馆location not on record | 17 |
| Odawara, JP | 17 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 16 |
| Helsinki, FI | 16 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 16 |
| Kandalaksha State Nature Reservelocation not on record | 15 |
| Bronx, US | 15 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 14 |
| Uppsala, SE | 14 |
| Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Scienceslocation not on record | 14 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 14 |
| Northeastern Forestry Universitylocation not on record | 13 |
| ENTClocation not on record | 11 |
| Rovaniemi, FI | 10 |
| Philadelphia, US | 10 |
| Chiba, JP | 9 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 9 |
| Tsukuba, JP | 9 |
| Burlington, US | 7 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 7 |
| Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record | 7 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 7 |
| Kew, GB | 7 |
| Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghlocation not on record | 7 |
| Memorial University of Newfoundlandlocation not on record | 7 |
| Stockholm, SE | 6 |
| Anchorage, US | 6 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 6 |
| Kyoto Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| Trois-Rivières, CA | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| Claremont, US | 5 |
| Porvoo, FI | 5 |
| St. Paul, US | 5 |
| MAlocation not on record | 5 |
| Canadian Museum of Naturelocation not on record | 4 |
| Yangling, CN | 4 |
| PTHlocation not on record | 4 |
| Saint Louis, US | 4 |
| National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record | 3 |
| Otaru, JP | 3 |
| nbflocation not on record | 3 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 3 |
| Finnish Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 3 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Bando, JP | 3 |
| Sendai, JP | 3 |
| Barcelona, ES | 3 |
| Wlocation not on record | 2 |
| Kushiro City Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Institute of the biological problems of the North FEB RASlocation not on record | 2 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 2 |
| Toronto, CA | 2 |
| Madison, US | 2 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 2 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 2 |
| Tartu, EE | 2 |
| KIRMlocation not on record | 2 |
| Santiago de Compostela, ES | 2 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 2 |
| Hokkaido University Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Görlitz, DE | 2 |
| Dekalb, US | 1 |
| Göteborg, SE | 1 |
| Beijing, CN | 1 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 1 |
| Zürich, CH | 1 |
| WNNUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Students On Ice Foundationlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Hulllocation not on record | 1 |
| Wellington, NZ | 1 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 1 |
| Toyama, JP | 1 |
| McGill University, Department of Biologylocation not on record | 1 |
| McGill Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Guilin, CN | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| B.A. Bennett Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fargo, US | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 1 |
| ifplocation not on record | 1 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 1 |
| PRClocation not on record | 1 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 1 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| Victoria, CA | 1 |
| NMWlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bloomington, US | 1 |
| Austin, US | 1 |
| Fort Worth, US | 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 Phyllodoce caerulea 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.