Simpsonanthus jonesii

(A.Gray) Guilliams, Hasenstab & B.G.Baldwin · species

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Boraginales/Boraginaceae/Simpsonanthus

At a glance

Occurrence records219

Data sources5

Biological traits8

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections3

Sources5 archives

Databases and archives Simpsonanthus jonesii's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility219 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI3 eDNA detections↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements2 literature sources8 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF219 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries3 detections

01Narrative

Plagiobothrys jonesii is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name Mojave popcornflower. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in desert mountains and flats in scrub and woodland habitat.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesGIFTTRY

Life cycle & reproduction2

Life spanannual

Raunkiær life formtherophyte

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment5

Aquaticterrestrial

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Growth formherb

Woodinessnon-woody

05DNA & barcoding3 eDNA hits

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 Simpsonanthus jonesii has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

eDNA detections3

Countries1

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type219 records

Wild obs. + sensor173

Museum / vouchered46

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO460 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 accuracy100% within 1 km

≤100 m 71≤1 km 1

72 georeferenced · 101 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor173

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 accuracy53% within 1 km

≤1 km 9≤10 km 8

17 georeferenced · 29 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence46

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 institutions10 of 13 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Santa Barbara, US	12
Davis, US	6
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record	6
Provo, US	5
Wuzhou, CN	3
Riverside, US	3
Claremont, US	3
Henderson, US	2
Irvine, US	2
Flagstaff, US	1
Boise, US	1
CASlocation not on record	1
ASUlocation not on record	1

13 institutions · 46 of 46 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA3 detections

Where the DNA of Simpsonanthus jonesii 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 found3

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 3 detections have coordinates

Open the map1 country0

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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.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median17.2 °C 17.2–17.2

Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.0 °C

Max temp (day)25.0 °C

Min temp (night)10.4 °C

Precipitation10.4 mm/mo

Air humidity44.7 %

Moisture balance-188 mm/mo

Vapour deficit1,097 Pa

Wind speed10.8 m/s

Cloud cover30.1 %

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche

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.

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