SUGAR MAPLE AT SLATE RUN
–click a lichen or moss to see it closeup–
Punctelia missouriensis
A large-lobed gray foliose lichen with pseudocyphellae and lobules.
Frullania eboracensis
A leafy liverwort.
Physcia millegrana and Punctelia missouriensis
The very fine-lobed lichen is mealy rosette lichen, Physcia millegrana.
Punctelia missouriensis
A large-lobed gray foliose lichen with pseudocyphellae and lobules.
Orthotrichum stellatum and Frullania eboracensis
A bristle moss. The species are challenging to identify.
Punctelia, Phaeophyscia and Pyxine
A trio of foliose lichens.
Orthotrichum in a sea of Frullania
Kind of rude, dontcha think, Orthotrichum, growing right on top of this innocent liverwort?
Frullania eboracensis
Frullania eboracensis is so common it's called "Frullania e-boring-censis."
Candelariella efflorescens
A crustose lichen that is most often "sterile" (lacking apothecia).
Frullania eboracensis
A lovely leafy!
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra and Frullania and Orthotrichum
Pyxine subcinerea and Punctelia missouriensis
This is mostly Pyxine, but see the Punctelia at 10 o'clock!
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra with a bit of Candelariella efflorescens.
Punctelia missouriensis
A large-lobed gray foliose lichen with pseudocyphellae and lobules.
Frullania eboracensis
Frullania is leafy, complicate-bilobed, with the lower lobes modified into pitchers.
Flavoparmelia caperata
Flavoparmelia caperata is yellow-green thanks to usnic acid.
Pyxine subcinerea
Pyxine subcinerea is pruinose.
Platygyrium repens
Platygyrium repens is a dingy looking moss that is more often found on logs.
Punctelia missouriensis
A large-lobed gray foliose lichen with pseudocyphellae and lobules.
Punctelia missouriensis
This old specimen seems dead in the middle.
A large-lobed gray foliose lichen with pseudocyphellae and lobules.
Orthotrichum
A bristle moss, as yet unidentified.
Parmotrema reticulatum
Ruffles with a dark undersurface all the way to the lobe margin.
Punctelia missouriensis
Gray greatness!
Punctelia missouriensis
A closeup showing lobules and coarse soredia.
Parmotrema hypotropum
Ruffles, with a broad white marginal zone beneath the lobes.
Frullania eboracensis
Frullania sounds like the name of a country. I want to move there!
Flavoparmelia caperata
Common greenshield has a distinctive color.
Punctelia missouriensis
A large-lobed gray foliose lichen with pseudocyphellae and lobules.