On rock in crevice. Collected.
Same but different individual with better photos: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/184301113
This looks easy for you @astorey_botany . on limestone. in the foothills of rockies
I went back and took some better pictures of this beautiful lichen species:
Not necessarily locally abundant, one of the rarest soil lichens here, but still at least 50 colonies in the area in multiple patches of exposed, dry prairie soil.
Sample collected!
Habitat shots showing the mix of stony ground, bare soil, and grass around the moss. Extensive small patches throughout where slightly wetter, above and below trail in draw
location credit: Melanie Bird (thank you!)
with @fielderda77
This will mess with the distribution maps a little bit!!!
Lobes about 0,4 mm.
same individual as https://inaturalist.ca/observations/145303152
Black inside. Minute hairs visible on stalk and head (pics 2 and 3, respectively).
"Thallus mostly 1–4 cm diameter, olive, brownish, or bluish olive, suberect to erect fruticose...; epruinose; branches short to elongate, tapered, with spiky tips, often delicate and easily fragmenting, pseudocyphellae lateral, conspicuous, white, roundish, flat to raised." McCune, B. & J. Di Meglio. 2021.
on clay and gravel seep, quite dark. Capilano Regional Park, BC, Canada
On a piece of fallen bark in coastal old growth forest of Picea sitchensis and Tsuga heterophylla.
Update: I think this may be Ricasolia amplissima ssp. sheiyi
https://accs.uaa.alaska.edu/wp-content/uploads/Ricasolia-amplissima_Assessment_FINAL_2017_12_22.pdf
seemingly the only kind of Dryas i saw there, patches, not extensive groundcover.