Frog Pelt Lichen

Wildflowers Found in Oregon

Frog Pelt Lichen

Peltigera neopolydactyla - A large, loosely appressed leaf lichen; lobes broad, 10-25 mm wide; upper surface hairless, olive-green to pale or dark bluish-grey, lacking cephalodia, often bearing brownish, tooth-like fruiting bodies on raised lobes along the lobe margins; lower surface whitish, cottony, bearing low, broad, brownish or blackish veins and long, slender holdfasts (rhizines). Found on rock, moss, soil and logs in open to shady forests at all forested elevations; common.

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