by CONPS ME | Apr 1, 2021
Crinkled Snow Lichen (Flavocetraria nivalis) Photo taken by Mo Ewing on Wrangle Island in the Arctic Ocean. This species also grows in the alpine in Rocky Mountain National...
by CONPS ME | Mar 27, 2021
Frilly Drawers or Helmut Sunburst Lichen (Xanthomendoza galericulata) (Teloshistaceae family) is a foliose lichen with a distinct dark orange color. Using a handlens, one can ID X. galericulata by its soredia particulates clustered into “helmut-shapped” soralia. This...
by CONPS ME | Mar 27, 2021
Egg Yolk Lichen (Candelariella rosulans) in the Candelariaceae family, can be a bit variable in appearance, ranging from rosulate to lobate to squamulose but almost always distinguishable from other Candelariella species by its thick, convex thallus and broad spores....
by CONPS ME | Mar 5, 2021
White Worm Lichen (Thamnolia vermicularis) An alpine lichen. Photo by Kenya...
by CONPS ME | Mar 5, 2021
Soil Paint Lichen (Acarospora schleicheri) An alpine lichen. Photo by Kenya...
