I spent a good chunk of yesterday unsuccessfully trying to identify a moss I had thought would be relatively easy.…
When I wrote about Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus last month I mentioned that it added chaos to the texture of the forest…
Kindbergia oregana is a very common forest floor moss west of the Cascades in coniferous and mixed woodlands. It forms…
This is a very common lichen on dry rocks. It is so common that it has engendered a rarity; a…
This is something of a companion profile to the one I did yesterday on Niphotrichum elongatum , since they are…
There is much taxonomic and nomenclatural discussion still ongoing about this species. It has only been in the last 20…
Cladonia as a genus has a bewildering array of forms and morphology, but, since the revision of the C. gracilis…
Well, I found yet another way to botch an identification! The ironic part is that I actually thought this was…
When I was looking for a remembered patch of Polystichum imbricans a couple of months ago I came across a…
There are only a few birds that I can identify by ear, but Sandhill Cranes are at the top of…