We have beautiful new note cards depicting fetid adder's tongues, woodland wildflowers, northwest conifers, and Mill Valley lichens. |
Just prior to mating, the female constructs a tiny cup nest of moss, lichens, and the silk of spiders' webs. |
The blocks of limestone in the forest's ravine are covered with lush growths of mosses, lichens, liverworts and walking ferns. |
In 1980, an old ash tree in Cumbria on which this lichen grew, had to be felled for safety reasons. |
Because of their sedentary character and free grazing habit, reindeer tend to trample and overgraze lichen pastures during summer and autumn. |
On our moss-covered trails, mats of shrubby gray reindeer lichen and Iceland lichen are common. |