dog lichen
A leafy lichen with broad greyish lobes and a pale underside bearing branching veins and root-like attachments.
Peltigera canina (bikkjenever / dog lichen)
All languages
- English
- dog lichen
- Norwegian
- bikkjenever
- Japanese
- イヌツメゴケ — いぬつめごけ — inutsumegoke
- Korean
- Peltigera canina — Scientific name; Korean name under review
- Spanish
- Peltigera canina — Scientific name; Spanish name under review
- French
- peltigère des chiens
- German
- Echte Hundsflechte
Illustrations are AI-generated and translations are undergoing language review.
Reference sources
- Consortium of Lichen Herbaria — Peltigera canina is a gray-brown foliose lichen with broad irregular lobes, a whitish lower surface, rhizines, and brown apothecia
- Missouri Department of Conservation — dog lichen has ruffled upturned lobes, a white or tan veined underside, and rusty-brown rolled apothecia at lobe tips