Sparganium americanum
Nutt. · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Sparganium americanum's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 685 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics7 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Sparganium americanum, American bur-reed, is a perennial plant found in the United States of America and Canada.http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=SPAM Sparganium americanum Nutt. American bur-reed, United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service Though this species resembles a grass, it is a type of bur-reed.http://www.aquascapesunlimited.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=plants.plantDetail&plant_id=102&typeID=2 Sparganium americanum. Aquascapes Unlimited Inc. This species is important for conservation purposes because it has the ability to remove nitrogen and phosphorus runoff from water, like many other wetland species. By doing this it protects waterways from excess nitrogen which can cause eutrophication. This increased nitrogen is especially a problem during the farmers’ growing season. During this same time frame the S. americanum is growing and taking up nitrogen.Kao, Jenny T., John E. Titus, and Wei-Xing Zhu. 2003. Differential Nitrogen and Phosphorus Retention by Five Wetland Plant Species. Wetlands Vol. 23, No. 4: 979-987. DOI 10.1672/0277-5212(2003)023[0979:DNAPRB]2.0.CO;2. Accessed 4/30/14.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology2
Life cycle & reproduction26
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment25
Physiology & chemistry18
Uses & economy13
Other traits6
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 Sparganium americanum 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.
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 type3 685 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.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions77 of 120 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 218 |
| Philadelphia, US | 204 |
| University of New Hampshirelocation not on record | 143 |
| Madison, US | 111 |
| Bangkok, TH | 91 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 81 |
| Oregon State Universitylocation not on record | 79 |
| Chicago, US | 75 |
| Montréal, CA | 75 |
| St. Paul, US | 68 |
| Tuscaloosa, US | 64 |
| Burlington, US | 64 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 55 |
| Philadelphia, US | 51 |
| Québec, CA | 44 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 38 |
| Toronto, CA | 35 |
| Saint Louis, US | 34 |
| Saint John, CA | 34 |
| Bronx, US | 33 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 33 |
| Williamsburg, US | 33 |
| College Park, US | 32 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 25 |
| Bloomington, US | 25 |
| DOI/NPS, Mississippi National River & Recreation Arealocation not on record | 23 |
| Allentown, US | 21 |
| Green Bay, US | 21 |
| Columbia, US | 21 |
| Millersville, US | 17 |
| James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studieslocation not on record | 17 |
| Tampa, US | 16 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 16 |
| Jackson, US | 15 |
| Durham, US | 15 |
| Keene State Universitylocation not on record | 14 |
| Knoxville, US | 13 |
| Austin, US | 13 |
| Lord Fairfax Community Collegelocation not on record | 12 |
| University of Southern Mississippilocation not on record | 11 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 11 |
| McWane Science Centerlocation not on record | 10 |
| GAlocation not on record | 10 |
| Minia, EG | 9 |
| Dekalb, US | 8 |
| Oswego, US | 8 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 8 |
| Hudson, US | 8 |
| Little Rock, US | 7 |
| International Salmonella Centre (W.H.O.)location not on record | 7 |
| DULlocation not on record | 7 |
| New Haven, US | 7 |
| San Angelo, US | 6 |
| Valdosta State Universitylocation not on record | 6 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 6 |
| US | 6 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 6 |
| Riverside, US | 5 |
| Fayetteville, US | 5 |
| Norfolk, US | 5 |
| Fort Worth, US | 5 |
| Montréal, CA | 4 |
| Trois-Rivières, CA | 4 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 4 |
| University of Guelph, OAC Herbariumlocation not on record | 4 |
| China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| Guasave, MX | 4 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 4 |
| EL PASO, US | 3 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 3 |
| Auckland, NZ | 3 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 3 |
| Mount Pleasant, US | 3 |
| Mohonk Preservelocation not on record | 3 |
| Jena Microbial Resource Collectionlocation not on record | 3 |
| Richmond, US | 3 |
| Provo, US | 3 |
| Whitewater, US | 3 |
| Maryland Department of Natural Resourceslocation not on record | 2 |
| Mexico City, MX | 2 |
| Morgantown, US | 2 |
| Hamilton, US | 2 |
| Claremont, US | 2 |
| Meguro Parasitological Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Davenport, US | 2 |
| Edmonton, CA | 2 |
| Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preservelocation not on record | 2 |
| Staten Island, US | 2 |
| Audubon Society -- Silver Bluff Audubon Center and Sanctuarylocation not on record | 2 |
| Pullman, US | 2 |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanoogalocation not on record | 2 |
| Fairfax, US | 2 |
| Clemson, US | 2 |
| Asheville, US | 2 |
| Moscow, US | 2 |
| Miami, US | 2 |
| Royal Botanical Gardenslocation not on record | 1 |
| Elikins, US | 1 |
| Victoria, CA | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| University of Wisconsinlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tennessee Technological Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
| Due West, US | 1 |
| Flagstaff, US | 1 |
| Tall Timbers Research Stationlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of North Carolina at Pembrokelocation not on record | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 1 |
| Lincoln, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 1 |
| Mississippi State, US | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| Albuquerque, US | 1 |
| Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Gardenlocation not on record | 1 |
| GB | 1 |
| Black Rock Forest Consortiumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Springfield, US | 1 |
| CSBSJUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 1 |
| Pocatello, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Sparganium americanum 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.