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Saturday - February 23, 2013
From: Austin, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Non-Natives
Title: Identifying non-native lichens from Austin
Answered by: Barbara Medford
QUESTION:
Can you provide help identifying lichens? If not, can you suggest someone who can?ANSWER:
Here at the Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center, our focus is on flowering plants which do not include moss or Licha (perhaps lichens).
We encourage you to go to our Plant Identification Page, and use the links to the different Forums whose specialty is identifying plants.
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