Vaccinium parvifolium
Sm. · speciesAt a glance
Sources14 archives
Databases and archives Vaccinium parvifolium's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility21 569 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI9 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics16 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
FooDBThe Metabolomics Innovation Centrecompounds↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
phenolexplorercompounds
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Vaccinium parvifolium, the red huckleberry, is a species of Vaccinium native to western North America, where it is common in forests from southeastern Alaska and British Columbia south through western Washington and Oregon to central California. In the Oregon Coast Range, it is the most common Vaccinium. It occurs mostly at low to middle elevations in soil enriched by decaying wood and on rotten logs, from sea level up to 1820 m.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology4
Life cycle & reproduction24
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment24
Physiology & chemistry21
Uses & economy15
Other traits7
Compounds documented for Vaccinium parvifolium across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds5 561 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4-hydroxybenzoic acid | 55.3 mg/100 g fresh weight | PhenolExplorer | |
| caffeic acid | 14.967 mg/100 g fresh weight | PhenolExplorer | |
| trans-Caffeic acid | 14.967 mg/100g | FooDB | |
| p-coumaric acid | 9.72 mg/100 g fresh weight | PhenolExplorer | |
| trans-p-Coumaric acid | 9.72 mg/100g | FooDB | |
| 5-Caffeoylquinic acid | 6.02 mg/100 g fresh weight | PhenolExplorer | |
| Ferulic acid | 3.85 mg/100g | FooDB | |
| Quercetin | 0.933 mg/100g | FooDB |
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 Vaccinium parvifolium 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 Vaccinium parvifolium 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 243×CCDB · eflora · CCDB · book-fedorov · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
n 122×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
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 type21 569 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 institutions52 of 76 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Angwin, US | 145 |
| Corvallis, US | 112 |
| Vancouver, CA | 101 |
| Arcata, US | 97 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 92 |
| Pullman, US | 79 |
| Claremont, US | 51 |
| Portland, US | 23 |
| Tacoma, US | 15 |
| Davis, US | 15 |
| Victoria, CA | 14 |
| Moscow, US | 12 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 10 |
| Bronx, US | 9 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 9 |
| Ashland, US | 8 |
| HJAEFlocation not on record | 7 |
| St. Paul, US | 7 |
| Cheney, US | 7 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 7 |
| Fort Bragg, US | 7 |
| CASlocation not on record | 6 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 6 |
| Fort Worth, US | 6 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 6 |
| DOI/NPS, Mount Rainier National Parklocation not on record | 6 |
| University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record | 5 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 5 |
| Riverside, US | 5 |
| US | 5 |
| Acadia Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| Austin, US | 4 |
| STNFlocation not on record | 4 |
| Los Angeles, US | 4 |
| Madison, US | 4 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 4 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 4 |
| San Jose, US | 3 |
| Logan, US | 3 |
| Bend, US | 3 |
| Saint Louis, US | 3 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 3 |
| San Diego, US | 3 |
| Tempe, US | 3 |
| Flagstaff, US | 2 |
| Bothell, US | 2 |
| Appalachian State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Portland, US | 2 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 2 |
| Boise, US | 2 |
| University of Guelph, OAC Herbariumlocation not on record | 2 |
| San Francisco, US | 2 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 2 |
| Philadelphia, US | 2 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 2 |
| Millersville, US | 1 |
| Montréal, CA | 1 |
| AUAlocation not on record | 1 |
| KNFYlocation not on record | 1 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
| Durango, US | 1 |
| Davenport, US | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| Northridge, US | 1 |
| Provo, US | 1 |
| KNFHClocation not on record | 1 |
| Royal Alberta Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Wlocation not on record | 1 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 1 |
| Severin-McDaniel Insect Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 1 |
| Henderson, US | 1 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 1 |
| Bangkok, TH | 1 |
| Long Beach, 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 Vaccinium parvifolium 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.