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Dog Lichen with Star Moss and Cladonia
Peltigera membranacea
47.6627, -122.682
Field Notes
Description:
A large "dog-lichen" with the upper surface of fresh thallus bluish- to brown-grey, ash-grey when dry, densely felted-tomentose, bullate, lacking isidia; lower surface white-tomentose, with unbranched, "fang-like" rhizines with fine, spreading, "bottle-brush" hyphal terminations (lens needed). Widespread and often common on mossy boulders, tree-bases and in short, dampish turf, including in lawns and on dunes.
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