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Urban mosses and lichens of Atlantic Canada

This guide is meant to assist Atlantic Canadians with continuing their natural history explorations through the year, as mosses and lichens (and liverworts!) are some of the few groups that are just as easy to identify in the winter as they are in the summer. There are a broad diversity of ...more ↓

Fishnet Cladonia 1
Cladonia boryi
Giant Cladonia Lichen 2
Cladonia maxima
rim lichen 3
Lecanora conizaeoides
Eastern Ragged-rim Lichen
Loxospora ochrophaea
Fringed Kidney Lichen 4
Nephroma helveticum
Black-bordered Shingle Lichen 5
Parmeliella triptophylla
Bronzed Pixie Lichen 6
Cladonia gracilis turbinata
Reindeer Lichen 7
Cladonia arbuscula
Lesser Rocktripe 8
Umbilicaria muhlenbergii
Pseudocyphellaria holarctica 8
Blue Felt Lichen 8
Pectenia plumbea
Smooth Lungwort 9
Ricasolia quercizans
Pixie Cup Lichens 10
Cladonia
Frullania inflata communis
Oakes' Scalewort
Frullania oakesiana
American Wall Scalewort 11
Porella platyphylloidea
Rustwort
Nowellia curvifolia
Flat-leaved Scalewort 12
Radula complanata
Asa Gray's Scalewort 13
Frullania tamarisci asagrayana
greater whipwort 14
Bazzania trilobata
Tree Fringewort 15
Ptilidium pulcherrimum
Creeping Fingerwort 12
Lepidozia reptans
common liverwort 16
Marchantia polymorpha
Various-leaved Crestwort 17
Lophocolea heterophylla
snakewort 18
Conocephalum salebrosum
Pellia 19
common liverwort 16
Marchantia polymorpha
Lophozia 20
Cephalozia 19
Jungermannia
Scapania 21
New York Scalewort 22
Frullania eboracensis
lesser featherwort 23
Plagiochila porelloides
Riccardia 24

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