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There are some decorative boulders at the shortgra

There are some decorative boulders at the shortgrass prairie area of The Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park in Columbus Ohio that are home to a lush growth of this obtuseleaf screw moss, Tortula obtusifolia. #moss #bryophytes #botany

One of the few #bryophytidentifiable brachythecium

One of the few #bryophytidentifiable brachytheciums, I think. The narrowly cylindric and upright capsules mark this as Brachythecium acuminatum. It was seen Sunday on a log at Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve in Licking County, Ohio, USA. #moss #bryophytes

There's a boulder in an intermittent tributary to

There's a boulder in an intermittent tributary to Big Darby Creek at Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park in central Ohio USA that is graced with this "Hyophila Moss" (also called "rolled-leaf wet-ground moss"). When dry, the leaves are rolled upwards along the margins (i.e., involute, hence the name Hyophila involuta) into little tubes. Yesterday was rainy, so they were nicely spread out. #moss #bryophytes

I went moss hunting yesterday (moss poaching might

I went moss hunting yesterday (moss poaching might be a better description) for samples to show a class where I guest-lectured today. One of the ones we looked at was this Plagiomnium cuspidatum, with the sporophytes maturing nicely. (Don't worry; it was common and abundant.) #moss #plantsofinstagram #botany #bryophytes

Poking around a fallow field in central Ohio's Mar

Poking around a fallow field in central Ohio's Marion County yesterday, it was a pleasure to find this emerald dewdrops moss, Ephemerum crassinervium. It's a tiny (this scene is about a centimeter across) spring ephemeral moss that is frequent but easy to overlook owing to its extreme mini-ness, occurring on moist bare soil in a variety of situations, especially old fields cultivated the previous summer. #moss #botany #bryophyte

The Ohio Moss and Lichen Association is going to h

The Ohio Moss and Lichen Association is going to have a table display at the Ohio Botanical Symposium on Friday. This afternoon I went hunting for some specimens for display there and found this peg lichen, Cladonia subcariosa, in a an open shaley (is that a word?) spot in Delaware County. I like the crisp edge of the apothecial (is that a word?) margins. #lichens #cladonia #fungi

Best buddies of the moss world! Bristle moss (an O

Best buddies of the moss world! Bristle moss (an Orthotrichum species as yet undetermined) and marbled screw moss (Syntrichia papillosa) are very often found together, this time on a decorative boulder at Ohio State University's Marion Campus. #moss #botany #bryophyte

At an urban park in Columbus (central Ohio USA --T

At an urban park in Columbus (central Ohio USA --The Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland) there are some decorative sandstone blocks that have been there for decades. One of them has Ptychomitrium incurvum growing on it! Not at all common in Ohio, this little cushion moss is more often seen on boulders in open woods. Cute hat, Ptycho! (I love the lobed calyptra.) #botany #moss #bryophytes

Ciliate hoarmoss (yes that's what iNaturalist call

Ciliate hoarmoss (yes that's what iNaturalist calls it) looking perky atop a boulder in central Ohio's (USA) Delaware County after yesterday morning's rain. I was hoping for a good view of sporangia, but the upper leaves are draped over and obscuring them (the two stems in the center). #moss #botany #bryophytes

Let's get pedantic about lichens! This is Porpidia

Let's get pedantic about lichens! This is Porpidia albocaerulescens. iNaturalist calls it "Smokey-eyed boulder lichen" (with an "e") even though the adjective is actually "smoky" (without an "e"). Maybe iNat is using a name in honor of that terrible Forest Service bear who is partly to blame for the near elimination, through fire suppression, of oak regeneration in a sense like "You've got Bette Davis eyes," except in this case it would be "You've got Smokey the Bear eyes." #lichens

Rhynchostegium serrulatum is a shiny somewhat flat

Rhynchostegium serrulatum is a shiny somewhat flattened carpet moss best identified by a microscope feature not visble in the photo: toothed leaves that have a twisted apex. This specimen was seen today in the ground in a wooded streambank at the Ohio State-Marion Campus Prairie in centrasl Ohio, USA. #moss #botanical #plants #bryophyte

Had a great time yesterday with the best-ever natu

Had a great time yesterday with the best-ever natural resource stewardship group, the Ohio Natural Areas and Preserves Association (ONAPA) at Cedar Bog (it's not actually a bog). We cut a lot of the eponymous conifers (they're not actually cedars) that are doing a a bit too well, threatening to shade out other rare plants in the sedge meadow. This is one of the beneficiaries of our work, a "pyxie-cup" lichen (one of a small few members of the "Cladonia pyxidata complex"). #lichen

Had a great time yesterday with the best-ever natu

Had a great time yesterday with the best-ever natural resource stewardship group, the Ohio Natural Areas and Preserves Association (ONAPA) at the doubly mis-named Cedar Bog (they're not cedars and it's not a bog). We cut a lot of the eponymous conifers that are doing a a bit too well, threatening to shade out other rare plants in the "sedge meadow." This is one of the beneficiaries of our work, Maidenhair Pocket Moss (Fissidens adianthoides) #botany

With UV flashlight in hand, I walked the length of

With UV flashlight in hand, I walked the length of the street I live on here in Columbus, and thanks to its fluorescence observed that 70 (59%) of 118 mature roadside trees have "jack-o-lantern lichen" (Pyxine subcinerea) growing on them. This is what it looks like in the daytime. Note the frosted-looking (pruinose) surface. #lichen

Had a great time Thursday with the best-ever natur

Had a great time Thursday with the best-ever natural resource stewardship group, the Ohio Natural Areas and Preserves Association (ONAPA) at Brown's Lake Bog in east-central Ohio's Wayne County. We cut a lot of shrubs that are doing a bit too well, threatening to shade out the pitcher plants and other such bog beauties. This is one of the beneficiaries of our work, prairie peatmoss, Sphagnum palustre. #sphagnummoss #moss #botany

These are sporophytes of "four-toothed moss," Tetr

These are sporophytes of "four-toothed moss," Tetraphis pellucida, seen yesterday during an ONAPA stewardship activity at Brown's Lake Bog Preserve in northeast-central Ohio's Wayne County. This moss is unusual not only by having a peristome with so few teeth, but in that they are composed of whole cells, not cell walls. Look carefully at the photo and you can see a few with the teeth showing. (Most still have the cap-like calyptra on.) #botany #moss #bryophyte

Seen on our dog walk tonight: Jack-o-lantern liche

Seen on our dog walk tonight: Jack-o-lantern lichen, Pyxine subcinerea, which fluoresces yellow under UV light, is surprisingly abundant on trees along the streets in my central Ohio urban/suburban neighborhood (the Clintonville section of Columbus). Showman and Flenniken, in #lichens their 2004 "Macrolichens of Ohio" describe its OH distribution as "commmon in southern Ohio, uncommon farther north." Could this be an instance of range extension due to climate change? #lichen

If you squint it kind of looks like a map of last

If you squint it kind of looks like a map of last night's election results, right? (I know...too soon!) This is the slightly inaptly named "British Soldiers" ("The redhats are coming?") lichen seen Sunday in central Ohio's Delaware County.#lichen

On a mission to refresh some of the images in the

On a mission to refresh some of the images in the Ohio Division of Wildlife's Common Lichens Field Guide, today I encountered this one in Delaware County: some type of pyxie-cup, likely Cladonia grayi. #lichen

On a mission to refresh some of the images in the

On a mission to refresh some of the images in the Ohio Division of Wildlife's Common Lichens Field Guide, today I encountered these two in Delaware County: Cladonia subcariosa (formerly C. polycarpoides) and C. cristatella. #lichens

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