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Fall Foray to Summit County
September 20-21, 2025

OMLA at Summit County. September 20, 2025

Left to Right: Dean Porter, Bob Klips, M.K. Klenkar, Steve McKee, Zach Betonte, Cooper Johnson, Mandy Slate, Cecelia Sahnow,
Ian Adams, Jeff Pengel, Kate Konik, Tomas Curtis, Jim Toppin, Janet Traub, Eric Shershen

On a mild, sunny weekend in September, we visited three preserves owned by Summit County Metroparks in the vicinity of Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Saturday morning we collected at O’Neil Woods Metro Park, which features mesic upland woods, with steep slopes down to Yellow Creek, not far upstream from where it flows into the Cuyahoga River.

In the afternoon, we collected at Deep Lock Quarry Metro Park. The park is named after Lock 28, which was 17 feet deep, the deepest lock along the canal. The park also includes a quarry that supplied Berea Sandstone for buildings and millstones. Natural water seepage has created a perched wetland on the old quarry floor. The old canal bed provides additional variety of habitats in this second-growth forest.

Sunday morning we hiked the Daisy Trail at Furnace Run Metro Park near Richfield. The trail goes through mesic deciduous woods underlain by Berea Sandstone, with a steep slope down to a wetland along Furnace Run, where Ohio Shale is exposed along the banks.

The following species were noted during the foray:

LICHENS
O’Neil Woods
Anisomeridium distans
Arthonia apatetica
Arthonia helvola
Arthonia ruana
Bacidia egenula
Bacidia granosa
Biatora printzenii
Candelaria concolor
Candelariella aurella
Chrysothrix caeisia
Cladonia ochrochlora
Cladonia rei
Dyctaocatenulata alba
Flavoparmelia caperata
Graphis scripta
Hypotrachyna minarum
Julella fallaciosa
Lecania croatica
Lecanora hybocarpa
Lecanora strobilina
Lecanora thysanophora
Lepraria finkii
Multiclavula mucida
Myelochroa aurulenta
Parmelia sulcata
Parmotrema hypotropum
Phaeophyscia adiastola
Phaeophyscia pusilloides
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Physica millegrana
Physcia stellaris
Physconia leucoleiptes
Piccolia nannaria
Protoblastenia rupestris
Punctelia caseana
Punctelia rudecta
Pyrenula laevigata
Pyxine sorediata
Ropalospora viridis
Verrucaria nigrescens (?)
Verrucaria sp.

Deep Lock Quarry
Candelariella lutella
Cladonia grayi
Endocarpon pallidulum
Lecanora appalachensis
Lecanora layana
Lepraria caesiella
Flavoparmelia caperata
Melanelixia subaurifera
Parmelia sulcata
Parmotrema hypotropum
Phaeophyscia rubropulchra
Physcia aipolia
Physcia millegrana
Placynthium nigrum
Punctelia missourriensis
Pyxine subcinerea
Rinodina papillata
Trapelia coarctata
Xanthocarpia feracissima

Furnace Run
Agonimia sp.
Amandinea polyspora

Anisomeridium polypori

Bacidina delicata

Biatora vernalis

Candelariella efflorescens

Canoparmelia crozalsiana
Catillaria nigroclavata

Cladonia chlorophaeacomplex
Cladonia furcata

Enchylium bachmanianum

Fellhanera silicis
Heterodermia speciosa

Ionaspis alba

Lecidea varians

Porpidia albocaerulescens

Pseudosagedia cestrensis

Verrucaria cernaensis
Viridothelium virens
Xanthomendoza weberi

BRYOPHYTES
O’Neil Woods

Atrichum angustatum
Bryoandersonia illecebra
Bryum pseudotriquetrum
Callicladium haldaneanum
Callicladium imponens
Campylium stellatum
Dicranum montanum
Ditrichum cf pallidum
Entodon seductrix
Eurhynchiastrum pulchellum
Frullania cf eboracensis
Hygroamblystegium varium
Leskea polycarpa
Leucobryum glaucum
Nowellia curvifolia
Platygyrium repens
Pogonatum pensilvanicum
Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris
Thuidium delicatulum

Deep Lock Quarry
Calliergonella lindbergii
Claopodium rostratum
Climacium dendroides
Fissidens bryoides
Gymnostomum aeruginosum
Nowellia curvifolia
Oxyrrhynchium hians
Plagiomnium cuspidatum
Pseudotaxiphyllum subfalcatum
Thuidium delicatulum

Furnace Run
Barbula unguiculata
Callicladium imponens
Entodon seductrix
Frullania cf asagrayana
Platygyrium repens
Syntrichia papilosa