California Coast


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Los Padres National Forest near Santa Barbara

Rancho Nuevo Trailhead Pine Mountain
Wolf Lichens, Pine Mountain Wolf Lichens, Pine Mountain


Trinity Mountains, Grizzly Creek, Russian Gulch

Redwoods, Russian Gulch Redwoods, Grizzly Creek
King Mountain, Lost Coast near McClellan Rock, Coast Range


Lost Coast through Mendocino Coast

Shelter Cove Shelter Cove
Shelter Cove Shelter Cove
Russian Gulch Mendocino Coast
Point Lobos


Ventana Wilderness outside of Monterrey

These were all taken on Chews Ridge, off Tassajara Road.


Turn back now if lichens and flowers bore the hell out of you!

Western Trillium - <i>Trillium ovatum</i> Stream Violet - <i>Viola glabella</i>
Scarlet Waxy-Cap - <i>Hygrocybe punicea</i>
This orange, carotene-rich, velvety stuff is actually green algae, growing on Monterrey Cypress (<i>Cupressus macrocarpa</i>). Some sort of Bird's Nest Fungus
Pixie-Cups - <i>Cladonia carneola</i>? Lipstick Powderhorn - <i>Cladonia macilenta</i>
Coastal Thornbush Lichen - <i>Kaernefeltia californica</i><br>some <i>Tuckermannopsis ?</i> (behind) Gold-Eye Lichen - <i>Teloschistes chrysophthalmus</i>
Tree-Coral - <i>Sphaerophorus globosus</i>
Elegant Centipede Lichen - <i>Heterodermia leucomela</i><br>The Dotted Line - <i>Ramalina farinacea</i><br>some Ruffle Lichen - <i>Parmotrema</i> Forked Tube Lichen - <i>Hypogymnia imshaugii</i>
Lungwort - <i>Lobaria pulmonaria</i><br>(typical indicator species for healthy oldgrowth forests) Powdered Ruffle Lichen - <i>Parmotrema chinense</i>?
Whiskered Tarpaper - <i>Leptochidium albociliatum</i> Little bitty <i>Mycena</i> at base of live oak.
Devil's Matchsticks - <i>Pilophorus acicularis</i> Scum-Lover - <i>Multiclavula lucida</i><br>(Unusual case of a club mushroom that has independently evolved into a lichen -- most are related to cup fungi.)
Frost Lichen - <i>Physconia isidiigera</i>? Rim-Lichen? - <i>Lecanora</i>?

(I haven't had a chance to identify most of the following crostose lichens yet.)
Beats me -- can't wait to stick 'er under the scope! Rock-Olive? - <i>Peltula</i>?
Bare-Bottommed Sunburst Lichen - <i>Xanthoria fulva</i><br>some <i>Physcia</i>-like Rosette Lichen looks like <i>Ochrolechia oregonensis</i> but shouldn't be on rock<br>some sort of young <i>Sedum</i> or <i>Dudleya</i>
Beats me. Beats me.
Seaside Firedot Lichen? - <i>Caloplaca inconspecta</i>? Granite Firedot Lichen? - <i>Caloplaca arenaria</i>?
Pincushion Sunburst Lichen? - <i>Xanthoria polycarpa</i>? Coral Firedot Lichen - <i>Caloplaca coralloides</i>
Gold Cobblestone Lichen - <i>Acarospora contigua</i>?<br>Flame Firedot Lichen - <i>Caloplaca ignea</i><br>Silver Moonglow Lichen? - <i>Dimelaena radiata</i>?<br>Rock-Nipple Lichen - <i>Thelomma mammosum</i><br>and the blackish thing in the upper right
Bush Lupine on slopes of Valencia Peak - <i>Lupinus longifolius</i>? Armored Fog Lichen at Navarro Point - <i>Niebla homalea</i>
Bouquet Fog Lichen at Point Lobos - <i>Niebla combeoides</i> unnamed Fog Lichen at Point Lobos - <i>Niebla ceruchoides</i>
California Poppy - <i>Eschscholzia californica</i> Fuschia-Flowered Gooseberry - <i>Ribes speciosum</i>
some Sunburst Lichen - <i>Xanthoria polycarpa</i>? Lace Lichen - <i>Ramalina menziesii</i>