Lichen Photographs

Woodcut from “How to tell the Birds from the Flowers” (Robert Williams Wood, 1917)
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Notes on macrolichen DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES and ECOLOGY for are from The Macrolichens of Ohio, by Ray E. Showman and Don G. Flenniken, published by the Ohio Biological Survey, Columbus, Ohio (2004).

Anaptychia
palmulata

Anzia
colpodes

Candelaria
concolor

Candelariella
aurella

Candelariella
vitellina

Canoparmelia
caroliniana

Canoparmelia
crozalsiana

Canoparmelia
texana

Cladonia
apodocarpa

Cladonia
caespiticia

Cladonia
caroliniana

Cladonia
cervicornis

Cladonia
coniocraea

Cladonia
cristatella

Cladonia
didyma

Cladonia
furcata

Cladonia
gracilis ssp. turbinata

Cladonia
macilenta

Cladonia
peziziformis

Cladonia
polycarpoides

Cladonia
pyxidata complex

Cladonia
rangiferina

Cladonia
robinsii

Cladonia
squamosa

Cladonia
subtenuis

Cladonia
uncialis

Collema
species

Dermatocarpon
luridum

Dermatocarpon
miniatum

Dibaeis
absoluta

Dibaeis
baeomyces

Flavoparmelia
baltimorensis

Flavoparmelia
caperata

Flavopunctelia
soredica

Graphis
scripta

Heterodermia
hypoleuca

Heterodermia
leucomela

Heterodermia
speciosa

Hypogymnia
physodes

Hypotrachyna
livida

Hypotrachyna
showmanii

Imshaugia
aleurites

Imshaugia
placorodia

Lasalia
papulosa

Lecanora
hybocarpa

Lepraria
lobificans

Lobaria
pulmonaria

Melanelia
subaurifera

Menegazzia
terebrata

Myelochroa
aurulenta

Myelochroa
galbina

Parmelia
squarrosa

Parmelia
sulcata

Parmelinopsis
minarum

Parmotrema
hypotropum

Parmotrema
perforatum

Parmotrema
xanthinum

Peltigera
canina

Phaeophyscia
adiastola

Phaeophyscia
cernohorskyi

Phaeophyscia
leana

Phaeophyscia
rubropulchra

Physcia
adscendens

Physcia
americana

Physcia
millegrana

Physcia
phaea

Physcia
stellaris

Physconia
species

Placidium
arboretum

Placidium
lachneum

Platismatia
tuckermanii

Porpidia
albocaerulescens

Psora
pseudorussellii

Punctelia
missouriensis

Punctelia
perreticulata

Punctelia
rudecta

Punctelia
subrudecta

Pyxine
sorediata

Pyxine
subcinerea

Ramalina
americana

Ramalina
complanata

Ramalina
intermedia

Ramalina
petrina

Ramalina
pollinaria

Tuckermanella
fendleri

Tuckermannopsis
americana

Umbilicaria
mammulata

Usnea
amblyoclada

Usnea
strigosa

Usnea
subscabrosa

Xanthomendoza
species

Xanthoparmelia
conspersa

Xanthoparmelia
plittii