Anita wrote:
> John, are you sure those are lichen? They look like they might be a
> spiderwort. I'm a beginner at this, so don't laugh too hard if I'm way
> wrong.

I think you mean Liverwort, no? Spider wort is a tall flowering plant.

It resembles the PIXIE-CUP LICHEN (Cladonia chlorophaea) but is
different enough to probably not be.

There is a picture of a Pixie on my lichen page...

http://schmidling.com/lichen.htm

For comparison.

js


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