Image of Field dog-lichen; Felt lichen

Description:

Habitat: on top of a south oriented dirt road cut, almost full sun, dry, precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, elevation 890 m (2.900 feet) Substratum: moss and calcareous soil encrusted base of tree stump. Ref: C.Smith et all, The Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland, The British Lichen Society, (2009), p672. I.Brodo, S.Sharnoff, S.Sharnoff, Lichens of North America, Yale Uni. Press (2001), p520. V.Wirth, Die Flechen Baden-Wuerttembergs, Ulmer (1995), Vol.2, p689.