Poliomintha incana is a species of flowering plant in the mint family which is known as frosted mint. It is native to dry and desert areas of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is a strongly aromatic shrub with dark green foliage covered in small white hairs. Scattered about the foliage are fuzzy, tubular flowers in shades of light purple and blue with tiny purple spots. Frosted mint is eaten fresh or dried or used as a flavoring by Native American groups, particularly the Tewa and Hopi.Ethnobotany
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Poliomintha incana across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
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 Poliomintha incana has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens2
Marker genes2
GenBank sequences3
eDNA detections2
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★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type895 records
Wild obs. + sensor393
Museum / vouchered502
Origin
Native1
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 824 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 accuracy84% within 1 km
≤100 m 243≤1 km 25≤10 km 27>10 km 23
318 georeferenced · 75 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor393
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 accuracy34% within 1 km
≤100 m 16≤1 km 52≤10 km 103>10 km 27
198 georeferenced · 304 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence502
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 institutions36 of 51 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Flagstaff, US
72
Bronx, US
66
ASUlocation not on record
39
Claremont, US
39
Phoenix, US
37
Logan, US
29
Albuquerque, US
26
EL PASO, US
25
Provo, US
21
Orem, US
17
US
16
Riverside, US
12
Lubbock, US
11
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
10
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
8
Pomona Collegelocation not on record
7
Denver, US
6
San Angelo, US
4
Austin, US
4
Austin, US
4
Grand Junction, US
3
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
3
Moscow, US
3
Durango, US
2
Pullman, US
2
Bloomington, US
2
Santa Barbara, US
2
Henderson, US
2
Wuzhou, CN
2
Bangkok, TH
2
San Diego, US
2
Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record
2
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
2
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
2
USFSlocation not on record
1
Chadron, US
1
Saint Louis, US
1
Fort Worth, US
1
Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record
1
Denton, US
1
Madison, US
1
Mexico City, MX
1
San Luis Obispo, US
1
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
1
Williamsburg, US
1
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record
1
Angwin, US
1
Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record
1
Montréal, CA
1
Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record
1
Weber State Universitylocation not on record
1
51 institutions · 501 of 502 vouchered records shown · 1 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA2 detections
Where the DNA of Poliomintha incana 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 found2
Studies independent surveys1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 2 detections have coordinates
Open the map0 countries0
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.
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 Facility895 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗