• Guides
  • Lichens of SF Bay Area (excluding order Teloschistales)

Lichens of SF Bay Area (excluding order Teloschistales)

Lichens with most observations in bounding box* come first.

Includes a few fungi that might look like lichens.
Teloschistales found in separate guide.

  • Bounding box extends: north to southernmost part of Clearlake; east to Merced; south to Carmel; and west into the
    • ...more ↓
Cramp Balls 1
Daldinia grandis
Brittle Cinder 2
Kretzschmaria deusta
Ancient Coral Lichen 3
Sphaerophorus venerabilis
Golden Moonglow Lichen 4
Dimelaena oreina
Punctelia jeckeri 5
dog pelt lichen 6
Peltigera canina
Chrysothrix xanthina 7
Ochrolechia subpallescens 8
Sulphur Stubble Lichen
Chaenotheca furfuracea
Frosted Rim-lichen
Lecanora caesiorubella
black-eyed rosette lichen 9
Physcia phaea
Common Goldspeck 9
Candelariella vitellina
Arnold's Parmotrema Lichen 9
Parmotrema arnoldii
Budding Tube Lichen 9
Hypogymnia enteromorpha
Platismatia stenophylla 10

Edited by Nancy Asquith, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

Photo Credits

  • 1. (c) Franco Folini, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 2. (c) Amadej Trnkoczy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 3. (c) Ken Kellman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ken Kellman
  • 4. (c) Joe Walewski, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Joe Walewski
  • 5. (c) tom_carlberg, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by tom_carlberg
  • 6. (c) Christophe Quintin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 7. no rights reserved, uploaded by Peter de Lange
  • 8. (c) André Aptroot, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 9. (c) Richard Droker, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
  • 10. (c) Jason Hollinger, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Member of the iNaturalist Network   |   Powered by iNaturalist open source software |   Documentation for developers