Lichens on stone, those "still explosions" as the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop named them, remain unseen to most, ...

Think of lichen as nature’s ultimate buddy system: the fungus builds the “house” — it provides the structure, holds moisture ...

With the naked eye, the details in the “Lichen Galaxy” image, for example, go unnoticed. Yet, there on the blue rock “sky” of the shoreline boulder are yellow, orange, cream, and mushroom ...

Minnesota Master Naturalist Tanner Barnharst reveals lichens in Minnesota’s urban, rural and in-between spaces.