Fall Foray to Pymatuning State Parks
(Ashtabula County, OH and Crawford County, PA)
September 27-29, 2019
The OMLA Fall Foray was held at Pymatuning State Parks on both the Ohio and Pennsylvania sides of Pymatuning Reservoir, September 27-29. The weather cooperated and allowed for some collections Friday afternoon near the Birches boat launch area on the Ohio side of Pymatuning. Saturday produced some more good collections at the Padanarum boat launch area on the Ohio side of Pymatuning.
The foray moved to the Pennsylvania side of Pymatuning for Saturday afternoon and Sunday. We had use of the environmental classroom at Pymatuning State Park, and several Pennsylvania State Parks Environmental Educators joined us. Linda Armstrong, recently retired from Pymatuning State Park and Emily Borcz, the new educator at the Park, helped to facilitate the foray with suggestions for collection areas and help in reserving the environmental classroom. Collections and keying of specimens continued Saturday afternoon and evening and we shared a pizza dinner in the classroom.
For those that stayed to Sunday, we were able to investigate a new area on the Pennsylvania side with a hike on a trail below the dam. There were several interesting mosses, fungi, slime molds, and lichens on this short hike.
While we hoped for more Pennsylvania participation, the PA State Parks educators were very helpful and enthusiastic. Dr. Dave Krayesky from Slippery Rock University attended on Saturday and is interested in helping to organize a Pennsylvania foray in the spring with help from Bob Long. Thanks to everyone for making the trip and for coming up with a good list of species on both sides of Pymatuning Reservoir.
Lichens and related fungi species totaled 75 from the Pymatuning State Park in Ashtabula County. Only 14 lichen species were recorded from the park in Pennsylvania (Crawford County). Of the species collected in Ohio, 31 were macrolichens, with 4 new for Ashtabula County. The remaining 43 species were crustose and related fungi with 8 species new for Ashtabula County (based on previous collections by Tomás Curtis).
Moss species recorded during the fall foray at Pymatuning State Park in Ashtabula County produced 64 mosses and 8 liverworts. Of the 64 mosses, 15 of them are new records for Ashtabula County.
Lichenized, Lichenicolous, and Allied Fungi of the 2019 Fall Foray in Ashtabula County, Ohio
* = New county record
Amandinea polyspora
Anisomeridium polypori
Arthonia apatetica
A. helvola
Athallia pyracea
Bacidina egenula
Biatora printzenii
Brianaria bauschiana
Candelaria concolor
Candelariella aurella
C. efflorescens
Chrysothrix caesia
Cladonia caespiticia
C. chlorophaea complex
C. coniocraea
C. cylindrica
C. fimbriata
C. macilenta
C. ochrochlora
C. peziziformis
C. rangiferina
C. rei
Crespoa crozalsiana
Flavoparmelia caperata
Fuscidea arboricola
Hypocenomyce scalaris
Hypogymnia physodes
Hypotrachyna minarum
H. showmanii
Lecanora hybocarpa
L. layana
L. nothocaesiella*
L. strobilina
L. symmicta
L. thysanophora
Lecidea cyrtidia
L. erythrophaea
L. varians
Leimonis erratica*
Lepraria caesiella
L. finkii
L. hodkinsoniana
Lichenoconium erodens*
Marchandiomyces corallinus*
Melanelixia subaurifera
Micarea prasina
Multiclavula mucida
Mycocalicium subtile*
Myelochroa aurulenta
M. metarevoluta*
Myriolecis dispersa
Parmelia sulcata
Parmotrema hypotropum
P. reticulatum
Phaeocalicium polyporaeum
Phaeophyscia pusilloides
P. rubropulchra
Physcia adscendens
P. millegrana
P. stellaris
Physconia detersa
Placynthiella icmalea
Punctelia caseana
P. missouriensis*
P. rudecta
Pyxine sorediata*
Ropalospora viridis
Scoliciosporum chlorococcum
S. pensylvanicum
Trapelia glebulosa*
Trapeliopsis flexuosa
Usnocetraria oakesiana*
Verrucaria dolosa*
V. nigrescens*
Xanthocarpia feracissima
Pymatuning State Park, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Bacidina egenula (T J Curtis, KE L3747)*
Candelaria concolor
Flavoparmelia caperata
Flavopuctelia flaventior
Hypogymnia physodes
Melanelixia subaurifera
Ovicuculispora parmeliae (T J Curtis, KE L3745)*
Parmelia sulcata
Parmotrema hypotropum
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Physcia millegrana (T J Curtis, KE L3746)
P. stellaris
Punctelia caseana
P. rudecta
Bryophytes of the 2019 Fall Foray in Ashtabula County, Ohio
* = New county record
Mosses
Abietinella abietina*
Amblystegium serpens
A. varium
Atrichum angustatum
A. crispulum
A. tenellum*
Aulacomnium palustre
Barbula unguiculata
Brachythecium curtum*
B. laetum
B. plumosum
B. populeum*
B. rutabulum
Brotherella recurvans
Bryhnia novae-angliae
Bryum argenteum
B. capillare*
B. dichotomum*
B. flaccidum*
B. pseudotriquetrum*
Callicladium haldanianum
Calliergonella lindbergii
Campyliadelphus chrysophyllus
Ceratodon purpureus
Climacium americanum
C. kindbergii
Dicranella heteromalla
Dicranum flagellare
D. montanum
D. scoparium
Entodon seductrix
Fissidens adianthoides
F. taxifolius
Hedwigia ciliata*
Homomallium adnatum
Hypnum imponens
H. pallescens
Leptodictyum riparium
Leskea gracilescens
L. polycarpa
Leucobryum glaucum
Orthotrichum ohioense*
O. stellatum*
Philonotis marchica*
Plagiomnium cuspidatum
Plagiothecium denticulatum
P. laetum
Platygyrium repens
Polytrichastrum ohioense
P. pallidisetum
Polytrichum commune
Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum*
Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris
Rhynchostegium serrulatum
Schistidium rivulare
S. apocarpum*
Sematophyllum adnatum*
Sphagnum capillifolium
S. fimbriatum
Tetraphis pellucida
Thuidium delicatulum
Ulota crispula
Liverworts
Chiloscyphus pallescens
Frullania eboracensis
F. inflata
Lophocolea heterophylla
Nowellia curvifolia
Pallavicinia lyelii
Ptilidium pulcherrimum
Riccia fluitans
Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Mosses
Amblystegium serpens
Dicranum montanum
Hypnum cupressiforme
Plagiomnium cuspidatum
Thuidium delicatulum
Liverworts
Lophocolea heterophylla
Nowellia curvifolia
Palavicinia lyellii