Stellaria calycantha
(Ledeb.) Bong. · speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Stellaria calycantha's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 316 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI41 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
giftgenome & karyotype
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
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.
Stellaria calycantha is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name northern starwort. It is native to western North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to California and New Mexico, as well as eastern Russia. It occurs in subalpine and alpine climates, in many types of moist, shady habitats. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing a prostrate to erect stem up to 25 centimeters long, taking a clumpy form. The thin oval leaves have smooth edges and pointed tips, and measure up to 2.5 centimeters in length. The inflorescence bears one or more flowers, each on a long pedicel. Each flower has five pointed green sepals, and some flowers have up to five deeply lobed white petals.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology2
Life cycle & reproduction5
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment7
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 Stellaria calycantha 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 Stellaria calycantha 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 2611×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · eflora
2n 527×CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn66 +2
2n 842×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
2n 221×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
2n 241×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
2n 481×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
2n 781×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
2n 1041×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
n 203×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
n 132×CCDB · book-ipcn67-71
n 262×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
diploid1×GIFT · GIFT (floras)
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
Record type1 316 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 institutions65 of 103 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Victoria, CA | 109 |
| Québec, CA | 80 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 66 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 55 |
| Pullman, US | 48 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 42 |
| Corvallis, US | 36 |
| Vancouver, CA | 35 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 35 |
| Uppsala, SE | 29 |
| New Haven, US | 25 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 25 |
| Provo, US | 24 |
| Bronx, US | 20 |
| Denver, US | 17 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 16 |
| Missoula, US | 16 |
| Anchorage, US | 16 |
| Tsukuba, JP | 16 |
| Moscow, US | 15 |
| Caldwell, US | 15 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 14 |
| Albuquerque, US | 14 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 12 |
| Kandalaksha State Nature Reservelocation not on record | 11 |
| Claremont, US | 10 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 10 |
| Tacoma, US | 9 |
| Yukon Universitylocation not on record | 9 |
| Boise, US | 8 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 7 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 7 |
| University of Lethbridgelocation not on record | 7 |
| Institute of the biological problems of the North FEB RASlocation not on record | 6 |
| Paris, FR | 6 |
| Riverside, US | 6 |
| Montréal, CA | 5 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 5 |
| DOI/NPS, Mount Rainier National Parklocation not on record | 5 |
| Davis, US | 5 |
| Portland, US | 4 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 4 |
| Kew, GB | 4 |
| Logan, US | 3 |
| Pocatello, US | 3 |
| Flagstaff, US | 3 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 3 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 3 |
| Olocation not on record | 3 |
| Columbia, US | 3 |
| St. Paul, US | 2 |
| Bangkok, TH | 2 |
| Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 2 |
| Brookings, US | 2 |
| US | 2 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 2 |
| Bloomington, US | 2 |
| Saint Louis, US | 2 |
| Honolulu, US | 2 |
| Phoenix, US | 2 |
| WINlocation not on record | 2 |
| Keene State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Beijing, CN | 2 |
| Ashland, US | 2 |
| Arcata, US | 2 |
| Trois-Rivières, CA | 1 |
| Corrientes, AR | 1 |
| Wlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 1 |
| San Diego, US | 1 |
| Angwin, US | 1 |
| Miami, US | 1 |
| Bozeman, US | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Trondheim, NO | 1 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
| Tampa, US | 1 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 1 |
| Turlock, US | 1 |
| HJAEFlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicachlocation not on record | 1 |
| Fredericton Stock Culture Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| BClocation not on record | 1 |
| Wellington, NZ | 1 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record | 1 |
| B.A. Bennett Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Northridge, US | 1 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 1 |
| Mississippi State, US | 1 |
| Staten Island, US | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| MAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Ypsilanti, US | 1 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 1 |
| Salamanca, ES | 1 |
| Henderson, US | 1 |
| DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record | 1 |
| Walla Walla, US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Stellaria calycantha 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.