Sesleria caerulea
(L.) Ard. · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Sesleria caerulea's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility133 035 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI11 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics16 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & 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.
Sesleria caerulea, the blue moor-grass, is a species of perennial grass in the family Poaceae, native to Europe.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology15
Life cycle & reproduction10
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment8
Physiology & chemistry8
Other traits3
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 Sesleria 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 Sesleria 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.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
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 2840×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · slov-fl +12
2n 551×CCDB · Original-count
tetraploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
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 type133 035 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 institutions48 of 99 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Salzburg, AT | 443 |
| Uppsala, SE | 207 |
| Tartu, EE | 151 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 150 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 113 |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławskilocation not on record | 98 |
| Zürich, CH | 83 |
| Bern, CH | 64 |
| Tallinn, EE | 57 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 54 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 49 |
| Dresden, DE | 37 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 37 |
| LDlocation not on record | 32 |
| Barcelona, ES | 31 |
| Mlocation not on record | 29 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 27 |
| Wlocation not on record | 22 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 21 |
| Auckland, NZ | 20 |
| Zürich, CH | 19 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 18 |
| Glarus, CH | 17 |
| South Kensington, GB | 16 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 14 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 11 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 10 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 9 |
| Bourges, FR | 8 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 8 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 7 |
| Görlitz, DE | 7 |
| Philadelphia, US | 7 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 6 |
| PRClocation not on record | 6 |
| Berlin, DE | 5 |
| Wellington, NZ | 5 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 5 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 5 |
| BClocation not on record | 5 |
| Olocation not on record | 5 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 5 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 4 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 4 |
| Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowielocation not on record | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 3 |
| CJBNlocation not on record | 3 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Finnish Museum of Natural History, Botanical Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| FLADlocation not on record | 3 |
| Gijón, ES | 3 |
| H-AkrKGlocation not on record | 3 |
| No collectionlocation not on record | 2 |
| PrivatHerblocation not on record | 2 |
| Xiamen, CN | 2 |
| Boise, US | 2 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 2 |
| Dhaka, BD | 2 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 2 |
| Denver, US | 2 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 2 |
| Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record | 2 |
| Namur, BE | 2 |
| Universität Göttingenlocation not on record | 2 |
| Salamanca, ES | 1 |
| Canberra, AU | 1 |
| H-Adlerlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Hulllocation not on record | 1 |
| MAlocation not on record | 1 |
| ULBF-AGRlocation not on record | 1 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 1 |
| Göteborg, SE | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghlocation not on record | 1 |
| UNINE:NEUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| Sevilla, ES | 1 |
| PVTlocation not on record | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Fribourg, CH | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 1 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 1 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lausanne, CH | 1 |
| Monastir, TN | 1 |
| NMWlocation not on record | 1 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| Sion, CH | 1 |
| Bloomington, US | 1 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| inatura Erlebnis Naturschau GmbHlocation not on record | 1 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| Trondheim, NO | 1 |
| Bronx, 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 Sesleria 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.