Stellaria longipes
Goldie · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Stellaria longipes's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 025 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI53 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics106 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotypeEvery layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Stellaria longipes is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names longstalk starwort and Goldie's starwort. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring throughout the northernmost latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. It is a perennial herb that grows in a wide variety of habitat types, including tundra and taiga and many areas farther south with subalpine and alpine climates. It is extremely variable in morphology, its form depending on both genetic makeup and environmental conditions.Flora of North America: ssp. longipes It has a widely varying number of chromosomes. In general, it is a rhizomatous perennial herb forming mats or clumps, or growing erect. The stems may be short and simple or with sprawling and highly branched. The linear to lance-shaped leaves are usually 1 to 4 centimeters long and are oppositely arranged in pairs. The inflorescence bears one or more flowers, each on a short pedicel. The flower has five pointed green sepals each a few millimeters long. There are five white petals each divided into two lobes, sometimes shallowly, but often so deeply there appear to be two petals. The plant is gynodioecious, with some flowers having functional male and female reproductive parts and others being only female.Dang, T. and C. Chinnappa. (2007). The reproductive biology of Stellaria longipes Goldie (Caryophyllaceae) in North America. Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 202:5 403-7 There are two subtaxa. The rarer of the two, subsp. arenicola, is limited to the sand dunes adjacent to Lake Athabasca in central Canada.Flora of North America: ssp. arenicola
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology10
Life cycle & reproduction26
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment27
Physiology & chemistry23
Uses & economy13
Other traits7
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 longipes 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 longipes 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 5215×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 +2
2n 1045×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants · CCDB · Cave1958
2n 724×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78
2n 784×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74
2n 261×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
2n 361×CCDB · book-ipcn65
2n 911×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
2n 1001×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
Record type5 025 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 institutions76 of 128 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 1 112 |
| Victoria, CA | 159 |
| Olocation not on record | 127 |
| Bronx, US | 119 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 94 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 77 |
| Pullman, US | 72 |
| Claremont, US | 71 |
| Moscow, US | 62 |
| Québec, CA | 56 |
| Trondheim, NO | 54 |
| Montréal, CA | 54 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 53 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 50 |
| Anchorage, US | 48 |
| Yukon Universitylocation not on record | 46 |
| Corvallis, US | 44 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 41 |
| Université Lavallocation not on record | 39 |
| Caldwell, US | 37 |
| Albuquerque, US | 36 |
| Pocatello, US | 32 |
| Provo, US | 32 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 30 |
| Bozeman, US | 29 |
| Vancouver, CA | 28 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 28 |
| Boise, US | 27 |
| Toronto, CA | 27 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 27 |
| LDlocation not on record | 25 |
| St. Paul, US | 24 |
| Canadian Museum of Naturelocation not on record | 22 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 22 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 20 |
| Riverside, US | 20 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 17 |
| WINlocation not on record | 17 |
| Uppsala, SE | 16 |
| Angwin, US | 16 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 16 |
| Whitehorse, CA | 16 |
| Denver, US | 14 |
| Fredericton Stock Culture Collectionlocation not on record | 14 |
| Flagstaff, US | 13 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 12 |
| Logan, US | 11 |
| Truckee, US | 11 |
| US | 10 |
| Stockholm, SE | 9 |
| Bloomington, US | 9 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 8 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 8 |
| Durango, US | 8 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 8 |
| Tampa, US | 7 |
| University of Lethbridgelocation not on record | 7 |
| Ypsilanti, US | 7 |
| Kew, GB | 7 |
| Tempe, US | 6 |
| Research Collection of B. A. Bennettlocation not on record | 6 |
| Bangkok, TH | 6 |
| Arcata, US | 6 |
| Churchill Northern Studies Centrelocation not on record | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| Saint John, CA | 5 |
| Trois-Rivières, CA | 4 |
| CASlocation not on record | 4 |
| Spearfish, US | 4 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 4 |
| VALElocation not on record | 4 |
| Missoula, US | 4 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 4 |
| DOI/FWS, Kenai National Wildlife Refugelocation not on record | 4 |
| Davis, US | 4 |
| Los Angeles, US | 4 |
| Philadelphia, US | 3 |
| Emporia, US | 3 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 3 |
| University of Helsinkilocation not on record | 3 |
| Tacoma, US | 3 |
| Orem, US | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 3 |
| EL PASO, US | 3 |
| Phoenix, US | 3 |
| Cheney, US | 3 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Henderson, US | 3 |
| Portland, US | 3 |
| Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record | 3 |
| BClocation not on record | 2 |
| SEFlocation not on record | 2 |
| San Diego, US | 2 |
| Wellington, NZ | 2 |
| Görlitz, DE | 2 |
| San Angelo, US | 2 |
| KNFYlocation not on record | 2 |
| MAlocation not on record | 2 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 2 |
| USFSlocation not on record | 2 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 2 |
| Grand Junction, US | 2 |
| Lincoln, US | 2 |
| Miami, US | 1 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 1 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 1 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chadron, US | 1 |
| Madison, US | 1 |
| Science Museum of Minnesotalocation not on record | 1 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Davenport, US | 1 |
| GINRlocation not on record | 1 |
| Wlocation not on record | 1 |
| Yellowstone National Park Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Canadian Museum of Nature, National Herbarium of Canadalocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Trondheim, Museum of Natural History and Archeologylocation not on record | 1 |
| INFlocation not on record | 1 |
| Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 1 |
| University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| San Francisco, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preservelocation not on record | 1 |
| Oswego, US | 1 |
| Mississippi State, US | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 1 |
| US | 1 |
Where the DNA of Stellaria longipes 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.