Spent the morning on Schoodic Point in Acadia National Park. The tide was low, so we were able to walk over to Little Moose Island on an exposed natural causeway. I was with three botanists, so learned a lot about the plant life: the male Roseroot Sedum has yellow flowers and the female has red; what we call juniper "berries" are actually tiny cones; and Xanthoria lichens do not just grow where rodents have urinated...
Even sea-scoured
bare granite harbors flowers,
blooms of lichen.
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| Blue Flag & Xanthoria lichen |
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| Bunchberry and gull feather |
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| Cinquefoil? tucked in granite |
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| Roseroot Sedum |
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| Xanthoria lichen rings |
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| Roseroot Sedum and Blue Flags |