Lichens and Bryophyte Group

We are skipping the month of April do to the Covid outbreak. We hope to resume back in May but we will see..

We are a Non-Vascular group. Our monthly bryophyte group in Menifee at the San Jacinto Collage biology lab. This is free and open to all beginner to advanced. Lab has microscopes and tools available for bryophyte identification. Every first friday of every month.

May 1st, Next meeting will have a presentation on moss anatomy which will help in your ability to identify moss to species. We will then get into keying these mosses. After this we will then focus on the liverworts and hornworts. At this meeting we will discuss plans for group hikes where we can identify species and collect in order to identify to species.

Everyone in the group also discussed working on lichens as well. so we are opening this group up to "bryophytes and lichens" but beginning with the study of bryophytes.

We will attempt education speakers and help to id available. If your Interested in more information or would like to sign up contact me at Chris Wagner, mossgeek@yahoo.com or here on INaturalist (mossgeek).

Posted on March 24, 2020 12:24 AM by mossgeek