Thomas Bancroft Photography

Shield Lichen with a Dicranum species.

The shield lichens clung tightly to the rocks at Rosario Head. They seemed almost to surround a small clump of Dicranum moss, probably Broom Moss. Twenty feet up the cliff from Puget Sound, the rock smelled of salt in the breeze. The rock may be ribbon chert or argillite; not enough was exposed to tell.

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Image Size: 2500x1667 / 2.6MB; Bryophytes Dicranum sp. Grss-like Moss Lichens Mosses Parmelia sp. Shield or Waxpaper Lichen
Contained in galleries: Bryophytes - Deception Pass State Park

The shield lichens clung tightly to the rocks at Rosario Head. They seemed almost to surround a small clump of Dicranum moss, probably Broom Moss. Twenty feet up the cliff from Puget Sound, the rock smelled of salt in the breeze. The rock may be ribbon chert or argillite; not enough was exposed to tell.