On shrub next to road near west side food coop.
On fence post. Growing with Cladonia transcendent and Ulota obtuscicula
On shrub next to road near west side food coop.
Scatter creek south. Unburied. Adjacent to 183rd and Guava
At Scatter creek rest area growing on ornamental dogwood.
Growing on a rock on the side of a trail. Just where this lichen always seems to grow. Second growth douglas-fir forest
Yay! One year after being tested on this lichen I finally got to see one!
Tiny (0.5-1.0mm) lobes with sorediate lined edges. Growing on Quercus garyanna bark in oak woodland.
I was looking for a specific moss while walking back to class and I found this instead.
A dioecious moss with a dendroid growth habit, observed on the walkway to Parking Lot "B" at The Evergreen State College on a rainy day.
This moss has both antheridia and sphorophytes on the same plant. The sphorophytes are shorter than that gametophytes and I'm not sure why. Perhaps these are very young sphorophytes. You can see a green "ball" in the sphorophyte; I wonder if that is an egg or a zygote? In other words, has it been fertilized yet?
What confuses me is that the sporophytes seem to be coming from the ground rather than from the top of a stem.
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