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Peltigera aphthosa
green when fresh, drying to almost black
edge of trail in the dunes on sandy loam
Spotted on Feb 19, 2012
Submitted on Feb 20, 2012
4 Comments
This is what I came up with using two websites with N American lichens
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
check Cladonia foliacea, http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/...
but I dont' know if the dimensions are correct.
It is just wild guess
Cool