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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

Spoon-leaved moss, Bryoandersonia illecebra, is a

Spoon-leaved moss, Bryoandersonia illecebra, is a robust carpet moss that is quite commin and abundant on the ground and flat rocks in woods. This was seen Saturday in southern Ohio. #moss #botany #plant #bryology

It means that the branch is smoothly cylindric, th

It means that the branch is smoothly cylindric, the leaves so closely overlapping that it resembles a caterpillar or catkin. #science #botany #plants #moss

Fissidens is a genus of flat mosses, featherlike,

Fissidens is a genus of flat mosses, featherlike, with two opposite rows of leaves. There are few medium-sized lookalike species that can occur on damp shady recesses in sandstone ledges. Only one of them--this one--Fissidens osmundioides, has the egg-containing archegonia, and if they are lucky then later the sporophytes, emerging from the stem tips rather than short side branches. You can see the terminal archegonia in the inset microscope photo taken at 40 magnification. #moss #bryophyte #botany

The undersurface of the leafy liverwort Porella lo

The undersurface of the leafy liverwort Porella looks like something from the imagination of M C Escher. This was seen Saturday at the Caesar Creek gorge in Warren County Ohio. #liverwort #bryophytes

This old wooden sign has seen better days, right?

This old wooden sign has seen better days, right? Seems that way from a distance, but it's covered in lichens! There's a lot of biodiversity here that would be a shame to lose through a neat repainting. What a quandary! This is Flavoparmelia caperata. #lichens

This old wooden sign has seen better days, right?

This old wooden sign has seen better days, right? Seems that way from a distance, but it's covered in lichens! There's a lot of biodiversity here that would be a shame to lose through a neat repainting. What a quandary! Methinks this be Parmotrema reticulatum. #lichens

This sign has seen better days, right? Seems that

This sign has seen better days, right? Seems that way from a distance, but closer inspection shows it to be covered in lichens! There's a lot of biodiversity here that would be a shame to lose through a neat repainting. What a quandary! #lichens

Had great fun a week ago with the bestest-ever nat

Had great fun a week ago with the bestest-ever nature group, the Ohio Moss and Lichen Association, during their annual Fall Foray, held at a YMCA camp in Tippecanoe, located in eastern Ohio's Harrision County. One of the highlights was exploring a tiny cave and seeing this rare moss, Tetrodontium brownianum. #moss #botanty #bryophyte

Dicranella means "little Dicranum," and that's ind

Dicranella means "little Dicranum," and that's indeed what this silky forklet moss, Dicranella heteromalla looks like. It was seen a week ago on a partly shaded shale barren in central Ohio's Delaware County. #moss #bryophyte #botany

I know you're not supposed to like (and I don't, r

I know you're not supposed to like (and I don't, really) environmentally destructive activities such as oil and gas pumping, surface coal mining, brick production and A-bomb testing (I made that last one up) such as those that happened to make the Monday Creek area in southern Ohio's Hocking, Perry and Athens Counties the 3rd most polluted watershed in the state...but AMD (acid mine drainage) sure makes for some interesting plant habitats, especially for mosses and wetland plants. Here's a couple of mosses--Sphagnum fallax and Polytrichum commune--seen there a few days ago. #moss

I'm gathering specimens for the upcoming moss work

I'm gathering specimens for the upcoming moss workshop at OSU's Stone Lab. We're going to dabble in peat mosses (Sphagnum), so on Sunday I went to a wet spot in southern Ohio's Athens County and grabbed a few stems of one with sporophytes. They look like little olives on toothpicks! (It's Sphagnum fimbriatum.) #moss #botany #sphagnummoss

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