As the leaves fall from trees and shrubs you may notice the stems of some plants covered with a grayish green crusty or mossy looking growth known as lichen (pronounced "liken"). Lichens will grow on ...

When you walk across the white sand that's common in Florida's scrub habitat, there is a plant no higher than the top of the toe of your shoes that you could easily overlook. The oversight is ...

Winter is a good time to examine landscape plants. With many of the deciduous plants dropping their leaves, it is easy to see defects and other problems, especially strange things growing on the ...

1. Stand structure, mean tree age, deadwood amount and microclimate all change markedly in the course of natural forest dynamics. The last remaining primeval forests of the temperate forest biome are ...

On cold winter days, feeding sticks of firewood into my woodstove, I sometimes pause, my eye caught by lichens. Splotchy circles, lacy tendrils. Soft gray, muted gray-green, black. They mottle the ...

Some 771 rare endangered species of plant and lichen face being lost to global warming, says a new study. And scientists warn there are few plans to place to address the threat. Most organisms on the ...

All plants and lichens listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act are sensitive to climate change but there are few plans in place to address this threat directly, according to a new study ...

Plant Ecology, Vol. 215, No. 10 (OCTOBER 2014), pp. 1123-1137 (15 pages) Modern silviculture has led to a reduction in deadwood, especially that of large diameter, and thus the loss of an important ...

We often see what we think of as moss growing among tree branches, or we see a crusty, colored coating on the bark of trees or rocks. Sometimes we notice a greenish velvet carpeting on rocks, walls or ...

COSTA GEORGIADIS: I'm looking at something that's pretty darn amazing. It's lichen, and you can find it almost everywhere - in your backyard, in a park, or out bush and it's an important part of our ...

FLOYD, Va. (WDBJ) - WDBJ7′s Small Business Spotlight goes on the road to Floyd, where John and Heather Barbieri sell a wide variety of exotic house plants at Lichen or Knot Plant Company. They started ...

Winter is a good time to examine landscape plants. With many of the deciduous plants dropping their leaves, it is easy to see defects and other problems, especially strange things growing on the ...