Lichens


These are my posts about Lichens.
If you would like me to take you on a short lichens walk near Settle do contact me. Happy to show people in / near Settle the lichens in their garden.

Posts are added, newest at top.


  1. BLS 2026 Winter Meeting at Carlisle: - Part 1 arrival, committee meetings, meal 
  2. Fri BLS 2026 Winter Meeting at Carlisle: - Part 2 - AGM and Talks
  3. BLS 2026 Winter Meeting, Carlisle: - Part 3 Sun - Cemetery Field Trip 
  4. Settle Harriers Winter Handicap 2026: Sat 3 Jan - And Lichens
  5. Boxing Day Pilgrimage to Fountains Abbey 2025 - And Lichens  
  6. Haugania oederi (Rhizocarpon oederi) at How Beck, near Stainforth
  7. Tremolecia atrata & Waxcaps along the (south) Craven Fault above Settle Oct 2025
  8. Pertusaria albescens and "Paley pink Pertusaria" song at Parcevall Hall
  9. My chapter on lichens in the new "Christians Aware "Building Biodiversity" Book
  10. YNU Field Excursion of Redmire Quarry 19 July 2025 - Lichens
  11. YNU Field Excursion to Kingsdale Head Farm 5 July 2025 - Lichens
  12. 1 July: Walk above Kingsdale Head Farm - Lichens and wildlife - in preparation for YNU excursion on Sat 5 July
  13. Linton Churchyard Lichens: What five lichens should beginners look for in churchyards on look for on each of Acid rocks, Basic Rocks and Trees?  June 2025
  14. Day 25 of 31 DaysWild - Pertusaria pertusa - Kilnsey Park estate Lichens  25 May 2025
  15. Lichens in the SW tip of SD8069 - Helwith Bridge 2 May 2025
  16. Cetraria aculeata or muricata above Cleatop Park.. And Lecanactis abietina in it.  1 May 2025
  17. Lichens of Ingleborough YNU paper by Allan Pentecost and Mark Seaward April 2025
    18. Hypotrachyna-horrescens in Woods at Tan-y-Bwlch
  18. Rhizocarpon geographicum - Lichens of Linton Churchyard 3  1 April 2025
  19. Blastenia (Caloplaca) crenularia - Lichens of Linton Churchyard 2.  31 March 2025
  20. Myriolecis antiqua (Lecanora antiqua) - Lichens of Linton Church 1 h March 2025
  21. Lichens in SE162165 (at the Tolson Museum) in an area with relatively few British Lichen Society records 1 Feb 2025
  22. Can't make up my mind which photos to enter for the BLS Lichen contest Dec 2024
  23. Sagiolechia protuberans - Lichens, mosses, bog, pavement - Cumbria-Swaledale border -24 Aug 2024
  24. Solenopsora candicans or Rhizocarpon umbilicatum  4 July 2024
  25. Settle Wildflowers 132a: Down the Ribble on 30 May SD8163: Lichens incl Xanthoria calcicola
  26. Settle Wildflowers 131: 26 May 2024: Mitchell Lane into SD8262 - Good King Henry, then climbing the hil plus lichens
  27. Halton Gill Bryophytes and Lichens - YNU walk 11 May
  28. SD8460 Langber: Last monad of year 5 of Lichen Survey of SD86
  29. Lichens at St John's Park Church, Sheffield 2 March 2024
  30. Lichens at Cober Hill BLS Winter Meeting Feb 2024
  31. Lichens and Mosses at Whitbarrow Cumbria Feb 2024
  32. Newstead Abbey lichens at BLS 2024 AGM Nottingham field trip - Halecania viridescens Jan
  33. Candelariella reflexa and Candelariella xanthostigma and C xanthostigmoides Jan 2024
  34. Happy Christmas - White lichens and Purple Crystalwort beside the Ribble Dec 2024
  35. Edith's Wood: Visit by group from Craven Conservation Group in October 2023 (not brilliant for lichens)
  36. Climate Walk and Lichens on Swindale Ridge on 2 Sept 2023 -  before Wild Haweswater Talk by Lee Schofield on 21 Sept.
  37. Lichens at The Yorkshire Arboretum September 2023
  38. Old Garden Wall - Preston Montford Field Centre - Day 3 Late Afternoon of British Lichen Society field Meeting in Shropshire  July 2023
  39. Jonathon's Hollow, Long Mynd - Day 3 of British Lichen Society Field Meeting in Shropshire 
  40. Nipstone Rock, Day 2 Afternoon of the British Lichen Society field meeting in Shropshire
  41. The Bog Mine, Day 2 Morning of the British Lichen Society field meeting in Shropshire
  42. Titterstone Clee Hill Quarry - Day1 - Afternoon of British Lichen Society Field Meeting in Shropshire - Acarospora smaragdula, Sterocaulon pileatum 
  43. Titterstone Clee Hill Boulder Slope - Day 1 Morning of British Lichen Society Field Meeting in Shropshire July 2023
  44. 29 June 2023 Thursday: Evening flowers at Lower Winskill, and Fuscidea cyathoides and Pertusaria pseudocorallina in SD8366: 30 Days Wild and stats for my best monads
  45. 22 June 2023- Thursday - Yet more lichens along Langcliffe High Road Caloplaca ochracea 30 Days Wild
  46. 19 June 2023 Monday - More lichens in SD8264 - in Langcliffe - 30 Days Wild -Top of walled  footpath from main road down towards Railway  footbridge June 2023
  47. 16 June 2023 Friday- Higher views down to Langcliffe & Settle - More Lichens - 30 Days Wild - Lecanora crenulata
  48. 11b June 2023: Open Farm Sunday at Cappleside Farm, Rathmell SD75 and Pertusaria pertusa - 30 Days Wild
  49. 08 June 2023 - Langcliffe Hillside SD8264 - Looking down to Settle - Petractis clausa - 30 Days Wild
  50. Lichens of Moffat and Southern Uplands - BLS Spring Field Week 2023 April 2023
  51. SD8362 - High Hill Lane near Scaleber Foss - Lichens SD86 - End of year 4 Review of stats after four years recording SD86 -good April 2023
  52. First Blue Moor-grass of the year -  & Do my recordings show the distribution of carparks? Hymenelia sp of lichen
  53.  Veb 2023 SD86 - 13 - SD8163 - Children's Play area, Settle - Hyperphyscia-adglutinata and Paranectria oropensis on Hornbeam - new records for SD86   11 Feb 2023
  54.  1st Day of the month Climate Walk: Cliostemum griffithii, Peltigera praetextat and Dawyck Lichen Safari book   1 Dec 2022
  55. Increase in Peltigera hymenina at Low Bentham Churchyard  Nov 2022
  56. Trapelia placodioides at Giggleswick Church wall    Sept 2022
  57. Ochrolechia androgyna and Ochrolechia tartarea on Rathmell Common   1 Sept 2022
  58. What do we find at Hampton and Puttenham Common, Surrey, with the British Lichen Society?  20  August 2022
  59. Settle Eco-Explorers 2022 at Lower Winskill - including Lichen and Wildflower Walk   17 Aug 2022 
  60. "Lichens for all trip" at Settle - SD8064 -Craven Bank - with AP, Sk, LK.- Part 1 on Gritstone 6 Aug 2022 Saw 10 new species for me and my hectad. this day 
  61. Last part includes some lichens at Millport, Cumbrae 24 June 2022 
  62. More at Embsay churchyard June 2022 
  63. Lichen Walk north of Winskill Stones June 2022
  64. 30 Days Wild 1a. Winskill Stones including Lichens  June 2022
  65. Helbeck Wood SSSi- Lichens, Bluebells and much more with Cumbria Lichens and Bryophytes group    20 May 2022
  66. YNU Mosses Walk from Rawthey Bridge - VC65  (on boundary with Cumbria) -includes lichens at the end 8 May

  67. Lichens at Embsay Churchyard, N Yorks: Beginners workshop: 11 May 2022


  69. SD86 - Three year review - 36-SD8366 12 March 2022

  70. This post has two main aims: 
  71. 1. A three year marker in my lichen survey of SD86
  72. 2. Showing some lichen pictures that I need answers for. 
  73. Ramalina fraxinea near Catrigg Foss seen when Nordic Walking - 12 March
  74. SD86 - 25 - SD8265a - Langcliffe North - Ramalina fraxinea Dec 2021
  75. Kirkstone Pass Lichens Sept 2021
  76. SD86 - 23 - SD8216a -Settle Market - east - Trapelia coarctata 28 May 2021
  77. SD86 - 17 - SD8167- Lecanora rupicola - Stainforth NW - Big white lichen - on exposed faces on ACID ROCK  4 April 2021
  78. SD86 - 19 - SD8169a Xanthoria calcicola- Helwith Bridge 7 March 2021
  79. SD86 - 42 - SD8462a -Black Gill - Xanthoria ucrainica:  1 March 2021
  80. Lichens of Low Bentham Churchyard - SD644692
  81. Chapel le Dale - Peltigera horizontalis and Peltigera praetextata  31 Dec 2020 
  82. SD86 - 20 - SD8260 - Long Preston Moor - Gritstone wall, wooden gate and willow tree lichens  Happy New Year 30 Dec 2020
  83. Settle Wildflowers Day 102: Langcliffe Churchyard Lichens and Wildflowers on Christmas Eve - SD86 - 35  24 Dec.. well actually posted a bit later.
  84. SD86 01b SD8061 - Rathmell - North - Drought 20 May 2020 
  85. May Beck near Whitby - Lichens with the BLS - March 2020 at Cober Hill, Cloughton  March 2020
  86. Lichens at Arniston House BLS 2020
  87. Settle's Top Ten Lichens 1
  88. Caloplaca flavescens 
  89. SD86 -09 - SD8069 - Dry Rigg Quarry - Helwith Bridge
  90. SD86 - 08 - SD8068 - Smearsett Copy - Swarth Moor South 
  91. SD86 -07 - SD8067 - Smearsett Scar - Path to Feizor - cltic Walls - Hidden Valley and more limestone platea
  92. SD86 -06 - SD8066 - Limestone pasture plateau twixt Giggleswick Scar and Little Stainforth -The Pennine Journey Path
  93. SD86 - 05a - SD8065 - Huntworth Common
  94. SD86 - 04 - SD8064 - Above Giggleswick School Chapel - Craven Bank Lane Lichens
  95. SD86 - 03 - SD8063 - Lichens North of Giggleswick Station, along the bypass to Close House
  96. SD86 - 02a - SD8062 - Lichens South of Giggleswick Station
  97. SD86 - 01 - SD8061 - Rathmell - North - Floods - Lichens
  98. SD86 - 00 - SD8060 - Rathmell - Lichens Rule!
  99. Malham Car Park Lichens: Amazing change in 10 years
  100. Lichens at Black Hill Capon Hall & then Victoria Cave 25 Feb
  101. Painshill Lichens with BLS (afternoon) 27 Jan 2019
  102. Painshill Lichens with BLS (morning) 27 Jan 2019
  103.  #LichenJanuary  Jan 2019
  104. Nosterfield Quarry, N Yorks, Fungi and Lichens 13 Oct 2019
  105. Field Skills Training Day at St Chads - Lichens - Insects - and more - by YNU - for Leeds University MSc  Sept 2018
  106. 30 Days Wild - Day 4 - Settle - Castleberg Rock: 4 June 2018
  107. Parmelina pastillifera 23 Dec 2017
  108. NWNU Mosses & Lichens Walk from Penyghent Gill to Slit Cave & Snorkel Cave Nov 2017
  109.  Lichens at Lofthouse - Report of the Moorland Festival Workshop  8 Oct 2017 
  110. Provisional Programme: for Nidderdale Moorland Festival Lichens Workshop 8 October
  111. Lichens at Lofthouse - Workshop and walk for absolute beginners -Exploratory Day Oct 2017
  112. Lecanora dispersa  24 May 2017- 
  113. Globe Flower/Poppy Wood 2 April 2017
  114. Fountains Fell (26 March)
  115. Lichens of Silurian Greywacke, Stainforth (March 2017)
  116. Aspicilia calcarea (Dec 2016)
  117. Opegrapha gyrocarpa (11 Sept 2016)
  118. Lecanora soralifera 
  119. Psilolechia lucida
  120. Porpidia tuberculosa
  121. Lepraria incana - Dust Lichen 
  122. Physcia tenella
  123. Lecanora gangaleoides
  124. Xanthoria parietina
  125. Squamarina cartilaginea
  126. Acrocordia conoidea
  127. Caloplaca flavovirescens
  128. Arthonia radiata
  129. Lichens at Wallington House, North.d with BLS 21 Jan 16
  130. British Lichen Society AGM at Newcastle. 21 Jan 2016
  131. Beginners Workshop: Top Twenty Lichens of Horton in
  132. Ribblesdale Churchyard (Now long past)
  133. Aye Gill Pike - CCG-VC65 Bot.Surveying 20 Aug 2015
  134. Upcoming Lichens at Ingleton Workshop on 20 June 2015
  135. Upcoming Beginners Lichens at Horton-in-Ribblesdale workshop on 28 March 2015
  136. Lichens of Horton-in-Ribblesdale Churchyard with Mothers Union  16 Oct 2014
  137. Lichens at Wrynose Pass 5 Sept 2014
  138. Eycott Hill, Cumbria Bryologists -& Lichens - March 2014
  139. Lichens of Ingleton Churchyard:  Parts 1 - 7  
  140. Longridge Fell -  NWNU - Bryophytes and Lichens Section Trip 13 April 2013
  141. Algae and Lichens for beginners - Malham to Gordale 2012
  142. Lichen Workshop at Grassington  July 2012
  143. Lichens on location - Booths Supermarket Settle March 2012
  144. Ecology near Yate and Stoke Gifford18 March 2012
  145. Lichens of Malham Tarn House - 2    29 February 2012
  146. Lichens of Malham Tarn House - 1    29 February 2012
  147. Lichens of Malham Tarn Fen - with Allan Pentecost 29 February 2012
  148. Lichens flourescent in bonfire light  5 Nov 2011
  149. Opal Lichens Settle    CCG walk led by myself -  2 April 2011
  150. Algae (and Lichens) for Beginners - Malham Walk with Allan Pentecost August 2009
  151. Lichens Day at Giggleswick Churchyard with Mark Seaward 14 June 2009


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