Trichostema lanatum, the woolly bluecurls, is a small evergreen shrub or sub-shrub native to arid coastal chaparral regions of California and the northern parts of Baja California. Trichostema lanatum is many-branched and grows to 1.5 m (5 ft) tall, with narrow, pointed green leaves. The smooth-petaled blue flowers are borne in dense clusters, with the stem and calyces covered in woolly hairs of blue, pink, or white. Flowers are present from March to June. Spanish explorers in California called the plant romero, the Spanish term for rosemary, and that common name is still sometimes used.Rogers, D. (2001). Romero or Woolly Blue Curls. Double Cone Quarterly.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Trichostema lanatum across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile2 classes
Flavones5
Flavonols2
Documented compounds7 total
Compound
Class
Amount
Source
6-Hydroxykaempferol
present
LOTUS
6-Hydroxyluteolin
present
LOTUS
Apigenin
present
LOTUS
Eupatorin
present
LOTUS
Galangin
present
LOTUS
Luteolin 7-diglucoside
present
LOTUS
Salvigenin
present
LOTUS
05DNA & barcoding6 specimens
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 Trichostema lanatum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens6
Marker genes5
GenBank sequences5
eDNA detections2
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ 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.
★matK1★rbcL1★rbcLa★ITS3★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualTrichostema lanatum 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.
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy89% within 1 km
≤100 m 1 997≤1 km 270≤10 km 154>10 km 112
2 533 georeferenced · 671 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor3 204
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 accuracy61% within 1 km
≤100 m 45≤1 km 168≤10 km 133>10 km 6
352 georeferenced · 226 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence578
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 institutions37 of 50 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Claremont, US
115
Santa Barbara, US
74
San Diego, US
56
Los Angeles, US
47
Riverside, US
36
US
31
Long Beach, US
19
San Luis Obispo, US
18
Northridge, US
12
Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record
12
Davis, US
11
DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record
9
CASlocation not on record
7
Arcata, US
6
Chapel Hill, US
5
Santa Cruz, US
5
Saint Louis, US
3
Ensenada, MX
3
US
3
Irvine, US
3
San Bernardino, US
3
San Jose, US
2
Phoenix, US
2
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
2
Albuquerque, US
2
EL PASO, US
2
Wuzhou, CN
2
Mexico City, MX
2
ASUlocation not on record
2
Wellington, NZ
1
Ashland, US
1
Bronx, US
1
DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record
1
Boise, US
1
Vancouver, CA
1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
1
Flagstaff, US
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record
1
Austin, US
1
Dekalb, US
1
Provo, US
1
Pomona Collegelocation not on record
1
San Diego Natural History Museumlocation not on record
1
Bloomington, US
1
Lubbock, US
1
Kew, GB
1
San Diego Natural History Museum, Herbariumlocation not on record
1
DOI/NPS, Colonial National Historical Parklocation not on record
1
Miami, US
1
50 institutions · 515 of 578 vouchered records shown · 63 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA2 detections
Where the DNA of Trichostema lanatum 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 found2
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 2 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
Adjacent to mixed chaparral, along road cut.…
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 median16.8 °C 16.8–16.8
Seasonal swing summer↔winter10.2 °C
Max temp (day)22.1 °C
Min temp (night)12.2 °C
Precipitation5.80 mm/mo
Air humidity61.9 %
Moisture balance-134 mm/mo
Vapour deficit729 Pa
Wind speed1.50 m/s
Cloud cover25.9 %
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.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 782 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics6 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗