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Green Rock-posy

Rhizoplaca melanophthalma

Photo by Brian38
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46.8693, -120.481

Field Notes

Description:

A white crustose lichen that clumps together in irregular shapes on exposed rock surfaces.

Habitat:

Spotted on a basalt boulder on the Northern canyon rim of the Umtanum creek.

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