Dixie Reindeer Moss - Cladonia subtenuis
Dixie Reindeer Moss - Cladonia subtenuis
Seems to the most likely species, ID suggested by Jason Hollinger on Mushroom Observer.
Abundantly branched forming cushions; slender podetia with main stalks not well-defined; ecorticate; predominantly Y-branching; compare with C. rangiferina which is gray-white, has open axils and is K+ yellow, with C. arbuscula with predominantly whorled branching, open axils, and K-, and with Cladonia furcata which is corticate and squamulose.
A southeastern US species, on soil almost exclusively, rarely on decaying wood. Frequent on roadside banks, rights-of-way and sunny woods edges. Most common “reindeer lichen” in some parts of the eastern United States.
One of the two common “reindeer mosses” found in central Florida, the other being Cladonia evanii, with the subtenuis — which means thinner — being less compact than Cladonia evanii. C. evanii — named after North Carolina botanist Alexander W. Evans — has no official common name but it is called Powder Puff Lichen. C. subtenuis is called Dixie Reindeer Moss.
www.sharnoffphotos.com/lichensB/cladonia_subtenuis.html
www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Cladonia+subtenuis
lichens.digitalmycology.com/macrolichens/Cladonia%20subg....
ohiomosslichen.org/lichen-cladonia-subtenuis/
www.eattheweeds.com/edible-cladonia-what%E2%80%99s-not-to...
Dixie Reindeer Moss - Cladonia subtenuis
Dixie Reindeer Moss - Cladonia subtenuis
Seems to the most likely species, ID suggested by Jason Hollinger on Mushroom Observer.
Abundantly branched forming cushions; slender podetia with main stalks not well-defined; ecorticate; predominantly Y-branching; compare with C. rangiferina which is gray-white, has open axils and is K+ yellow, with C. arbuscula with predominantly whorled branching, open axils, and K-, and with Cladonia furcata which is corticate and squamulose.
A southeastern US species, on soil almost exclusively, rarely on decaying wood. Frequent on roadside banks, rights-of-way and sunny woods edges. Most common “reindeer lichen” in some parts of the eastern United States.
One of the two common “reindeer mosses” found in central Florida, the other being Cladonia evanii, with the subtenuis — which means thinner — being less compact than Cladonia evanii. C. evanii — named after North Carolina botanist Alexander W. Evans — has no official common name but it is called Powder Puff Lichen. C. subtenuis is called Dixie Reindeer Moss.
www.sharnoffphotos.com/lichensB/cladonia_subtenuis.html
www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Cladonia+subtenuis
lichens.digitalmycology.com/macrolichens/Cladonia%20subg....
ohiomosslichen.org/lichen-cladonia-subtenuis/
www.eattheweeds.com/edible-cladonia-what%E2%80%99s-not-to...