I have been reluctant to profile any of the former members of the clade ‘Parmelia section Melanoparmelia’ because it is…
I was excited to finally find this lichen, often known by the common name of brown-eyed wolf lichen, two weeks…
I had to find this lichen 3 times before getting a positive identification on it. The first time I found…
I’m not happy to be making this post with ‘possibly’ in the title, although I feel fairly comfortable calling this…
This is a very common lichen on dry rocks. It is so common that it has engendered a rarity; a…
Cladonia as a genus has a bewildering array of forms and morphology, but, since the revision of the C. gracilis…
Parmelia sulcata is everywhere! You can find it from sea level thickets to high in the mountains, on high desert…
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post on Evernia prunastri, I’ve been misidentifying Ramalina farinacea as E. prunastri for 2 years.…
Evernia prunastri is almost ubiquitous on the we(s)t side of the Cascades. But it is not actually as common as…
This lichen is also known as Ragbag, an evocative common name, the accuracy of which has led the bryologist David…