Symphoricarpos oreophilus
A.Gray · speciesAt a glance
Sources8 archives
Databases and archives Symphoricarpos oreophilus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility918 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI5 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Symphoricarpos oreophilus is a North American species of flowering plant in the Caprifoliaceae, or honeysuckle family, known by the common name mountain snowberry. It has a wide distribution in western Canada, the United States, and northwestern Mexico. It is found in mountainous areas such as the Cascades, the Sierra Nevada, the Rockies, and the Sierra Madre Occidental from British Columbia to the Copper Canyon region of Chihuahua, from the coastal states as far inland as the Black Hills, the Oklahoma Panhandle, and trans-Pecos Texas.Aleksoff, Keith C. 1999. Symphoricarpos oreophilus. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution mapSEINet, Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter photos, distribution mapJones, George Neville 1940. A monograph of the genus Symphoricarpos. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 21(2): 201-252 Symphoricarpos oreophilus is a deciduous shrub growing erect or spreading or trailing. Depending on environmental conditions it may reach 30 cm to 1.5 m in mature height. The fruit is a white drupe containing two nutlets, each of which contains a seed. The plant grows from a rhizome. It reproduces vegetatively by sprouting from the rhizome and by layering, and sexually via seed. Symphoricarpos oreophilus is common in many types of habitat in western North America, and it may dominate some ecosystems, such as sagebrush.Symphoricarpos oreophilus. The Nature Conservancy. It is also an indicator species of certain habitat types where Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), white fir (Abies concolor), ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), subalpine fir (A. lasiocarpa), Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii), and/or quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) make up the overstory. It grows in all successional stages in pinyon-juniper woodlands. It is usually found in open habitat, as it does not easily tolerate shade. In heavily forested regions it grows in open areas and breaks in the canopy. Many types of animal use this plant for food, especially in the early spring, when it is one of the first plants to bear leaves. Deer, elk, and livestock browse the foliage. Some small mammals use the shrubs for cover. Birds such as the yellow-billed magpie consume the fruits. The saponin-containing berries are inedible to humans.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology4
Life cycle & reproduction23
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment23
Physiology & chemistry20
Uses & economy15
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 Symphoricarpos oreophilus 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.
Record type918 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 institutions53 of 74 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Bronx, US | 106 |
| Moscow, US | 100 |
| Logan, US | 62 |
| Boise, US | 57 |
| Provo, US | 50 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 41 |
| Flagstaff, US | 39 |
| Pocatello, US | 39 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 34 |
| Missoula, US | 27 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 26 |
| Phoenix, US | 23 |
| Riverside, US | 21 |
| Claremont, US | 15 |
| Pullman, US | 15 |
| Albuquerque, US | 14 |
| DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record | 12 |
| Durango, US | 11 |
| Musee des Dinosaures d'Esperaza (Aude)location not on record | 11 |
| Weber State Universitylocation not on record | 10 |
| EL PASO, US | 10 |
| Corvallis, US | 9 |
| Orem, US | 8 |
| Bozeman, US | 8 |
| Mexico City, MX | 7 |
| Lubbock, US | 7 |
| San Angelo, US | 7 |
| Grand Junction, US | 7 |
| Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalitionlocation not on record | 5 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 4 |
| US | 4 |
| Fullerton, US | 3 |
| Bloomington, US | 3 |
| Mississippi State, US | 3 |
| Pittsburg, US | 2 |
| USFSlocation not on record | 2 |
| New Haven, US | 2 |
| Denver, US | 2 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 2 |
| Henderson, US | 2 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 2 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 2 |
| Davis, US | 1 |
| The University of Arizonalocation not on record | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Millersville, US | 1 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Chadron, US | 1 |
| Dekalb, US | 1 |
| Bandelier National Monumentlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Yellowstone National Park Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Burlington, US | 1 |
| Bureau of Land Managementlocation not on record | 1 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| Dover, US | 1 |
| BAYLUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Northridge, US | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| St. Paul, US | 1 |
| Ensenada, MX | 1 |
| Angwin, US | 1 |
| Lincoln, US | 1 |
| UFSClocation not on record | 1 |
| San Francisco, US | 1 |
| Tacoma, US | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| San Diego, 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 Symphoricarpos oreophilus 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.