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Cladonia cristatella, commonly known as the British soldiers lichen or the British soldiers cup lichen, [1] is a fruticose, cup lichen belonging to the family Cladoniaceae. The species was first described scientifically by American botanist Edward Tuckerman in 1858.
Cladonia incrassata or the powder-foot British soldiers cup lichen [2] is a species of cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. Found in Europe and North America, it was formally described as a new species in 1828 by German botanist Heinrich Gustav Flörke. A colloquial name for the lichen is "powder-foot British soldiers". [3]
The following list of lichen species found at Soldiers Delight is based upon these three sources, with acronyms used below: 1977 publication by Skorepa, Norden and Windler [S,N,W] the species of lichens from Soldiers Delight in Elmer Worthley's personal herbarium [EGW] Ed Uebel's observations [ECU]
Cladonia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Chionodes continuella. ... Cladonia cristatella – British soldiers lichen;
The Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, consists of about 1,900 acres (7.7 km 2) of land in Owings Mills, Maryland, USA. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Much of the area of Soldiers Delight contains a serpentine barren that contains a number of rare and endangered species of plants.
Although there are many lichen species throughout the world, only a few species of lichen are known to be both edible and provide any nutrition. [6] Two problems often encountered with eating lichens is that they usually contain mildly toxic secondary compounds, and that lichen polysaccharides are generally indigestible to humans. Many human ...
Dr. James Bender, a former Army psychologist who spent a year in combat in Iraq with a cavalry brigade, saw many cases of moral injury among soldiers. Some, he said, “felt they didn’t perform the way they should. Bullets start flying and they duck and hide rather than returning fire – that happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.”
Serpentine Barren in Spring (beard grass, bird's-foot violet, blue-eyed grass, bluets, British soldiers (lichen), broom moss, cinquefoil, cushion moss, ebony spleenwort, field chickweed, gray shield lichen, holy grass, Indian grass, lyre-leaved rockcress, pixie cups (lichen), purple ceratodon (moss), reindeer lichen, sagittate-leaved violet ...