Foliose Lichens growing on glacial erratics, E USA
Foliose lichens encrusted on fractured glacial erratics, Northern Michigan USA by DPA Dembinsky Photo Associates These glacially-deposited boulders are frequent throughout eastern north america where glaciers once-covered the land. Lichens are pioneer plants, the first invaders, to grow and colonize the bare surfaces of these boulders and rocks.
Size: 4752px × 3168px
Location: Michigan USA
Photo credit: © Dembinsky Photo Associates / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -flowering, abundant, adaptation, adaptations, adapted, age, alga, algae, alive, america, ancient, associates, bare, biome, biomes, blue, botanic, botanical, botany, boulder, boulders, cling, close, close-, colorful, common, communities, community, composite, condition, conditions, covered, crusty, debris, dembinsky, dense, difficult, earth, ecology, ecosystem, ecosystems, encrusted, environment, environments, erratic, erratics, exposed, extreme, flora, floral, foliose, fractured, fungal, fungi, fungus, geological, geology, glacial, glacier, great, green, grow, growth, hard, heavy, horizontal, ice, invade, lakes, leafy, lichen, lichenology, lichens, life, macro, michigan, micro, mutualism, natural, nature, niche, niches, nonflowering, north, organic, organism, organisms, outdoor, outdoors, patch, patches, patchy, photo, photobiont, photosynthetic, phycobiont, pioneer, pioneers, planet, plant, plants, poikilohydric, primeval, primitive, relationship, relationships, rock, rocks, rocky, scaly, simple, solid, split, stage, stages, states, stones, strange, succession, surface, surfaces, symbiont, symbionts, thalli, thallus, united, usa, view, wild, wilderness
