lichen

Example Sentences

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But by noon, I had topped out in the moss-draped montane forest, a land of lichens and ferns and orchids and graced with sunshine.

From National Geographic

Others are less obvious, like California’s official state rock, lichen and dinosaur.

From New York Times

Antarctica is virtually devoid of flowering plants - but lichens can gain a foothold on small areas of exposed bare rock.

From BBC

Researchers traveled to the Cairngorms mountains in the Scottish Highlands, which hosts more than 1,500 species of lichen as well as Britain’s only reindeer herd.

From Seattle Times

Reindeer subsist primarily on reindeer moss, or Cladonia rangiferina, which isn't a moss but actually a species of algae-fungus fusion known as lichen.

From Science Daily