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| Figure 1. Candelariella efflorescens
Name: Candelariella efflorescens
Common name: Powdery Gold Speck Lichen
Family: Candelariaceae
Collection date: September 14, 2015
Habitat: Tree bark
Location: Hiram, Ohio
Description: Crustose yellow surface forming very small round patches. Thallus consists of yellow round, flat patches 0.2mm in diameter.
Collector: Katie Trushel
Key used:Walewski, Joe. (2007). Lichens of the North Woods. Kollath and Stensas Publishing. Minnesota.
Keying Steps: Trees and crustose section
Notes: Common on maple and aspen trees
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Specimen #10 Powdery Gold Speck Lichen
Specimen #9 Common Green Shield Lichen
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| Figure 1. Flavoparmelia caperata |
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| Figure 2. Close up of Flavoparmelia caperata
Name: Flavoparmelia caperata
Common name: Common Green Shield
Family: Parmeliaceae
Collection date: September 14, 2015
Habitat: Tree bark
Location: Hiram, Ohio
Description: "Foliose pale yellow-green lobes with black lower surface and pale brown under edges, lobes 3-8mm wide."
Collector: Katie Trushel
Key used: Walewski, Joe. (2007). Lichens of the North Woods. Koliath and Stensas Publishing. Minnesota.
Keying steps:
Tree and Foliose section...pg. 107
Notes: Extremely common and abundant in urban and industrial areas due to atmospheric pollution. Grows on all bark in sun or partial shade.
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Specimen #8 Bird's Nest Fungi
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| Figure 1. Bird's nest fungi found in the mulch |
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| Figure 2. Close up of the bird's nest |
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| Figure 3. Close up of the peridioles
Name: Cyathus helenae
Common name: Bird's Nest fungi
Family: Nidulariaceae
Collection date: September 12, 2015
Habitat: Tree base in the mulch
Location: Newbury, Ohio
Description: mini cups with gray circles that appear like small stones
Collector: Katie Trushel
Key used: Kuo, Michael.(2014.) The Bird's Nest Fungi. http://www.mushroomexpert.com/birdsnests.html
Keying steps:
1b) Fungus shaped roughly like a cup or goblet that is covered with a "lid" when young (though the lid often disappears quickly); "eggs" held in a nest-like receptacle at maturity.
6b) Outer surface and/or inner surface of nest shaggy, hairy, grooved, or velvety.
10a) Inside surface of nest vertically lined or grooved
11a) Found in temperate North America (from the Gulf Coast northward)
12b) Not completely as above
13a) Nest typically 5-6 mm wide; montane and boreal in distribution.
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Specimen #7 Golden Fern Moss
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| Figure 1. Tomentum nitens at tree base |
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| Figure 2. Tomentum intense wet leaves with sporophytes |
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| Figure 3. Tomentypnum nitens brown hairs |
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| Figure 4. Tomentypnum nitens sporophytes
Name: Tomentypnum nitens
Common name: Golden fern moss
Family: Brachytheciaceae
Collection date: September 12, 2015
Habitat: moist tree base
Location: Newbury, Ohio
Description: Dark green in color with stringy branches leaves
Collector: Katie Trushel
Key used: McKnight, Karl B. and Rohrer, Joseph R. 2013. Common Mosses of the NorthEast and Appalachians. Princeton University Press. New Jersey.
Keying steps:
pleurocarp, lance, costa
1a) plants w/ upright steams, top of plants 3-10cm above substrate
2b) stems pinnately branched nearly to base, thus mimicking an upright feather
5b) plants of wet habitats; stems matted w/ green of red-brown hairs; leaves at stem tips straight
6b) leaves crowded, 3-4mm long
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Specimen #6 Greater Tongue Moss
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| Figure 1. Anomodon viticulosus with dry leaves |
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| Figure 2. Anomodon viticulosus with wet leaves
Name: Anomodon viticulosus
Common name: Greater Tongue Moss
Family: Anomodontaceae
Collection date: September 12, 2015
Habitat: Tree base in soil
Location: Newbury, Ohio
Description: Light green color with a carpet-like appearance
Collector: Katie Trushel
Key used: McKnight, Karl B. and Rohrer, Joseph R. 2013. Common Mosses of the NorthEast and Appalachians. Princeton University Press. New Jersey.
Keying steps:
pleurocarp, lance, costa
1b) plants creeping or creeping w/ ascending shoot tips, tops of plants rarely marathon 3cm above substrate
7b) plants terrestrial on soil, rocks, trees, or logs
8b) leaves 2-4mm long
17b) older shoots w/ green, yellow green, golden, or brownish green leaves; growing on various substrates; capsules usually bent over on stalks from short side branches
19a) leafs at stem tips curve in one direction
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Specimen #5 Silver Broom Moss
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| Figure 1. Paraleucobryum longifolium in natural habitat |
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| Figure 2. Paraleucobryum longifolium leaves up close
Name: Paraleucobryum longifolium
Common name: Silver Broom moss
Family: Dicranaceae
Collection date: September 10, 2015
Habitat: Moist bog floor
Location: Triangle Lake in Ravenna, Ohio
Description: Dark green with long stalks and all leaves sweeping to one side
Collector: Katie Trushel
Key used: McKnight, Karl B. and Rohrer, Joseph R. 2013. Common Mosses of the NorthEast and Appalachians. Princeton University Press. New Jersey.
Keying steps:
acrocarp, hair-like
1b) plants larger than 1cm tall; usually in forest on soil, rock, logs, or trees
3a) leaves swept to one side of stem w/ tips more of less pointing in one direction
4b) plants gray green or whitish green; individual plants w/ leaves swept to one side, but not all plants swept the same direction; capsule 2-3mm; stalk 1-2cm
Links:
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200001018
https://books.google.com/books?id=jvpWGRQVhhgC&pg=PA390&lpg=PA390&dq=silver+broom+moss&source=bl&ots=20uBbo7A6v&
sig=Dn78jUlpNkBPzcPt6amSwCE2TKI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC4Q6AEwA2oVChMIkvWd7oLAyAIVQRweCh3E8ANz#v=onepage&q=
silver%20broom%20moss&f=false
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Specimen #4 Tricky Peat Moss
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| Figure 1. Sphagnum fallax in its natural habitat |
Figure 2. Views of the apical heads of the Sphagnum fallax
Name: Sphagnum fallax
Common name: Tricky Peat Moss
Family: Sphagnaceae
Collection date: September 10, 2015
Habitat: bog
Location: Triangle Lake in Ravenna, Ohio
Description: Light green in color, long and stringy
Collector: Katie Trushel
Key used: McKnight, Karl B. and Rohrer, Joseph R. 2013. Common Mosses of the NorthEast and Appalachians. Princeton University Press. New Jersey.
Keying steps:
peat moss
1b) branch leaves with margins flat to somewhat incurved, tip long-pointed, not hooded; stem cross-section w/o conspicuous cortex, less than 1/4 diameter of stem; branches slender, stringy, or spiky
5b) clusters of 5 or fewer branches attached at one point; apical head large or small but not as dense as a pom-pom; stems stiff to flexible; typically grow as cushions, mats, or carpets either in forests or open habitats such as bogs.
6b) branched leaves with apical half gradually narrowed and not bent outward from base
7b) plants green, yellowish, or brownish with no traces of red
10b) apical head w/ mostly straight branches and not appearing twisted when viewed from above
11a) stem leaves triangular w/ pointed tips, shorter than branch leaves and spreading away from stem or laying flat against stem and pointing toward stem base; if apical head looks like a 5-pointed star, then developing branches between the rays in pairs
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Specimen #3 Lipstick Thyme Moss
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| Figure 1. Mnium hornum in natural habitat |
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| Figure 2. Mnium hornum dry |
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| Figure 3. Mnium hornum wet |
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| Figure 4. The toothed leaf edge of the Mnium hornum
Name: Mnium hornum
Common name: Lipstick Thyme
Family: Mniaceae
Collection date: September 12, 2015
Habitat: Soil, grassy area under a tree
Location: Newbury, Ohio
Description: Dark green with a dome-shaped appearance
Collector: Katie Trushel
Key used: McKnight, Karl B. and Rohrer, Joseph R. 2013. Common Mosses of the NorthEast and Appalachians. Princeton University Press. New Jersey.
Keying steps:
acrocarp, lance
1b) plants darker green, shoots loosely associated, leaves flat or folded with midrib usually visible at least at base of leaf
3b) plants on soil, rocks, trees or logs in dry areas, leaves not folded at base
4b)leaf surface not rippled/wavy when wet
9b) leaves <4mm long
21b) leaves spreading in various directions or barely diverging from stem when wet; plants lacking brood branchlets
22a) 2-10cm tall23a) leaf margins toothed
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http://ohiomosslichen.org/moss-mnium-hornum/
http://www.plantguide.org/mnium-hornum-moss.html
Specimen #2 Pincushion Moss
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| Figure 1. Leucobryum glaucum dry |
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| Figure 2. Leucobryum glaucum wet
Name: Leucobryum glaucum
Common name: Pincushion moss
Family: Leucobryaceae
Collection date: September 12, 2015
Habitat: Grassy soil area under a tree
Location: Newbury, Ohio
Description: light green with a dome-shaped appearance
Collector: Katie Trushel
Key used: McKnight, Karl B. and Rohrer, Joseph R. 2013. Common Mosses of the NorthEast and Appalachians. Princeton University Press. New Jersey.
Keying steps:
acrocarp, lance w/o midrib
1a) plants whitish green(dry) to light green (wet); shoots densely packed together forming domed mounds; leaves tubular in upper half and seemingly w/o midrib
2a) stems 1-9cm tall; leaves 4-8mm long; rarely with capsules
Links:
http://eol.org/pages/889250/details http://www.bbsfieldguide.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdfs/mosses/Leucobryum_glaucum-juniperoideum.pdf |
Specimen #1 Wavy Starbusrt Moss
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| Figure 1. Dry Atrichum altecristatum |
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| Figure 2. Dry Atrichum altecristatum leaves |
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| Figure 3. Wet leaves of Atrichum altercristatum |
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Figure 4. Rust fuzz of Atrichum altercristatum
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