We concluded our trip to the Caddo NG late Thursday.
Dripping moss!
A cool liverwort! So I can’t wait for Jeanne to get an ID on it.
The purple crust fungus (Phlebiopsis crassa) can be found on rotten branches.
The Pebbled Pixie Cup (Cladonia pyxidata)! Furthermore the pebbles inside the cup make it hard for the fairies to drink from it. 😉
The Vaccinium arboreum goes by several common names which includes Sparkleberry, Farkleberry, and Huckleberry. Farkleberry is my fav. 🙂
I was very pleased to have found a Flowering Fringe lichen (Heterodermia echinata)! Moreover the narrow and very ciliate (hairy) lobes can easily be mistaken as a fruticose type lichen. Fruticose is a shrubby-type lichen. At least I did when I found my first one.
Certainly we were pleasantly surprised to find the Winter Grapefern (Holubiella lunarioides) in the forest.
We also saw a lot of the Grape Fern or Rattlesnake Fern (Botrypus virginianus). However no spores yet.
Interesting shaped gall on oak!
Indeed small but colorful, the Fan-shaped Jelly Fungus (Dacrymyces spathularia)!
So most of the lichens I found were laying on the ground on fallen branches. This one had a hodgepodge of lichens. The two main ones here were the Usnea (hairy one) and Perforated Ruffle Lichen (Parmotrema perforatum), the foliose one.
How can you be sure a hairy looking one is a Usnea? All Usneas have a stretchy center cord.
Indeed it was a very successful week at Caddo NG! Now we both have a lot of data and ID’ing to do. 🙂
I have never seen moss dripping from a branch like that. So cool. Beautiful fan jelly fungus