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Tumbleweed Shield Lichen
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Tumbleweed Shield Lichen

Xanthoparmelia chlorochroa

Xanthoparmelia chlorochroa, commonly known as the tumbleweed shield lichen, or ground lichen, is a foliose lichen in the Parmeliaceae family. It is not fixed to a substrate, and blows around in the wind from location to location. It is used as a dye by Navajo rug weavers.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 233696.