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A distant view of the hillsides along Dalles Mountain Road

Dalles Mountain Road

Published by Daniel Mosquin on April 6, 2020

Here is a 2015 photograph from a favourite site of many spring wildflower seekers, the Dalles Mountain Road area in southern Washington state.

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The aptly-named brown screw-moss

Syntrichia princeps

Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 20, 2019

The Flora of North America describes the distribution of brown screw-moss as spanning western North America (including Mexico), western and southern South America, Europe, western Asia, Africa, some of the Pacific Islands (Hawaii, New Zealand), Australia, and Antarctica. It is therefore one of the relatively few multicellular species that can be found on all major […]

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Leaves of Lophozia incisa

Lophozia incisa

Published by Daniel Mosquin on August 31, 2018

Ragged-leaf liverwort is a widely-distributed liverwort of forests and bogs. The Encyclopedia of Life entry for Schistochilopsis incisa (now a synonymous name) displays a map with collections across the Northern Hemisphere from Arctic regions to near the equator in South America. It also uses the common name jagged notchwort.

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Tickertape bone lichen

Hypogymnia duplicata

Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 13, 2018

Some sites use duplicate tube lichen as a common name for this composite organism, but I prefer tickertape bone lichen. As Richard (the photographer) notes, this a popular species in lichen charades–either common name will do.

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A group of Anemone occidentalis in fruit

Anemone occidentalis

Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 24, 2018

Missing from today’s entry and previous entries on Anemone occidentalis is a photograph of the flower. One of today’s photographers, Emma Harrower, has a good example here: Anemone occidentalis.

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Close-up of the flowers of Ribes acerifolium

Ribes acerifolium

Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 8, 2017

Ribes acerifolium (syn. Ribes howellii), also known as Howell’s gooseberry, maple-leaved currant, maple-leaf currant, and maple-leaved blackcurrant, is a deciduous perennial shrub native from southern British Columbia to Oregon and eastward to Idaho in the USA. Habitats include moist meadows, open ridges, rocky slopes, and streambanks at elevations from about 990m (3250 ft.) upwards to […]

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Umbilicaria polaris, or lesser salted rocktripe

Umbilicaria polaris

Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 2, 2017

For many years, North American lichenologists (mis)applied the name Umbilicaria krascheninnikovii to Umbilicaria polaris. This was only rectified in recent years in a 2011 paper by EA Davydov et al. in Herzogia 24:251–263: Contribution to the Study of Umbilicariaceae (Lichenized Ascomycota) in Russia. II. Kamchatka Peninsula, where the authors note that Umbilicaria krascheninnikovii is actually […]

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