Yesterday morning "in Pennsy", I grabbed my Camera and visited the neighbor's slope right next to our place. It is a wildflower heaven and the slope is just loaded with Lichen.
I spotted a couple of new (on this location) Lichen, the weather must have been perfect for them, they all looked great. I just went through my wonderful book ( Lichens of North America) and tried to compare and identify. I hope I did it correctly!
These charming miniatures are so easily overlooked and many of the pretty details are only revealed with some magnification.
Here is the slope -
Cladonia cristatella, British Soldiers
Cladonia cervicornis var verticillata, Ladder Lichen
I have never seen the next one in this location, this is possibly Cladonia pleurota, the Red-fruited Pixie-cup.
Here is another new one, although I did spot this one last year in the Ramapo mountains.
Dibaeis baeomyces, Pink Earth Lichen
And another Pixie-cup, surely one of the Cladonias or perhaps false Pixie-cup, Cladonia chlorophaea
