Species with a conservation status similar to the Lichen Results 1 - 14
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Corn cleavers (Galium tricornutum)
Corn cleavers is an endangered plant that has bristly stems and produces thin leaves in whorls of up to nine. The double fruits ar...  More  3 Images  0 Videos
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Lichen (Caloplaca aractina)
Caloplaca aractina is a 'crustose' lichen; one with a crusty-like appearance. The body of the lichen (its thallus) is an oily dark...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Broad-fruited corn salad (Valerianella rimosa)
The Latin name Valerianella means 'little valerian', and refers to the fact that this genus is affiliated with the valerians. Broa...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Starry breck-lichen (Buellia asterella)
This particular lichen grows on chalky soil, forming small white rosettes with small black discs about 0.5 millimetres across on t...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Many-fruited beardless moss (Weissia multicapsularis)
This moss, with its curious English name, forms small patches on the ground and on Cornish hedge banks. It forms small patches on ...  More  2 Images  0 Videos
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Ribbon-leaved water-plantain (Alisma gramineum)
The aquatic ribbon-leaved water plantain resembles its more common relative, common water plantain; however it is generally more d...  More  8 Images  0 Videos
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Narrow-leaved cudweed (Filago gallica)
Narrow-leaved cudweed produces tiny flowers and has small, narrow, silvery-grey to green leaves. The seeds are known as achenes, w...  More  7 Images  0 Videos
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Cornish path moss (Ditrichum cornubicum)
This extremely rare moss was first discovered in 1963 and only identified as a distinct species in 1976. It appears as dull-green ...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Water rock-bristle (Seligeria carniolica)
This minute dark green moss is very distinctive. The tapering leaves have very broad bases and long, narrow tips...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Lichen (Calicium corynellum)
This species is commonly called a 'pin-head' lichen as the fruiting bodies (the structures that produce the lichen's spores) are s...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Small four-tooth moss (Tetrodontium repandum)
Small four-tooth moss is minute, and is so called as the capsule (the spore-bearing structure which is held aloft on a stalk or 's...  More  1 Image  0 Videos
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Triangular club-rush (Schoenoplectus triqueter)
Triangular club-rush is a critically endangered species in Britain. Both the common name and the Latin name triqueter (from the La...  More  5 Images  0 Videos
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Lady’s slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus)
The lady's slipper orchid is Britain's rarest and most impressive orchid. The exotic looking flowers have claret petals that frame...  More  7 Images  0 Videos
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Reindeer lichen (Cladonia mediterranea)
This member of the Cladonia (reindeer lichen) genus is whitish-grey in colour and grows in low, bushy clumps. The familiar common ...  More  2 Images  0 Videos

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