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macro lichen

Peltigera aphthosa

Photo by KarenSaxton
Published on Project Noah
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43.4073, -124.236

Field Notes

Description:

green when fresh, drying to almost black

Habitat:

edge of trail in the dunes on sandy loam

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
KarenSaxton
This is what I came up with using two websites with N American lichens
KarenSaxton
Similar, but yours looks more fine lobed with more divisions in the "leaf" than mine and I found no reference to it being in the states - although I suppose it could have been brought over from Scotland somehow along with the gorse and broom. You gave me a direction to look. Thank you. Now if I can find the other one I posted
arlanda
check Cladonia foliacea, http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/... but I dont' know if the dimensions are correct. It is just wild guess

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The Pacific Northwest Bioregion
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2012

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