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Forking bone lichen (Hypogymnia inactiva) ...
not very much info out there on this particular species .... will try to find ...
Is a lichen. It is used as a pollution indicator because it accumulates heavy ...
A light grey lichen with small lobes also showing brown apathecium.
Growing among several different species of lichen on the same branch
I think the black spots are where the soredia develop, which you can see ...
light green threads with interspersed yellow, flat discs
I found this lichen just walking up along the creek.
Lichen growing on a twig at Alderman's Ford park.
Tube-like apothecia with lots of black on the edges and underside of the ...
Typical of tube lichen -- greyish on top and mostly black underneath.This ...
The large brownish structures are the ascocarps, or the spore-bearing ...
A grayish green foliose lichen with branches that are hollow tubes. Rounded ...
Large goblet-like apothecia present. Thallus is white to mint green with a ...
The thallus is minty green to white, heavily branched but in thick "fingers." ...
Windblown out of a large fir tree. The first pic is cropped to show apothecia ...
Foliose lichen, with tubular, hollow lobes and slightly roughened surfaces. It ...
A few small patches of leafy lichen, with pale green-blue coloring.
Mostly white with black specs on upper surface while lower surface is black.
Foliose lichen, with tubular, hollow lobes and slightly roughened surfaces. It ...
Frosty green, dry growth on fallen branch that resembles coral. There is a ...
It is a light-colored, fruticose lichen belonging to the Cladoniaceae family. ...
A foliose lichen also known as forked tube lichen. This specimen shows the ...
A foliose tube lichen with a light grey upper surface and mostly black ...
brown-eyed sunshine(Vulpicida canadensis). The white lichen is forked tube ...
Pale green lichen with a black underside
Lichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of ...
Lichen likes water. 2 pictures. On the left the lichen is hysrated. On the ...
Technically a foliose lichen. The cuplike things are reproductive structures ...
(like a flute). The other two species with a hollow thallus are