Scientific name: Aminita muscaria
The Fly Agaric Mushroom is an extremely poisonous mushroom that is easily identified by its bright red or yellow cap with white textured spots. You may recognize the red-capped Fly Agaric as the most popular representation of mushrooms throughout pop culture, seen in video games like Super Mario Brothers and Minecraft!
Scientific name: Lasallia papulosa
Look closely at granite cliff faces and boulders here at the park and you just might see Common Toadskin Lichen! This type of Blistered Navel Lichen is an umbilicate lichen (a.k.a. A lichen which attaches to its substrate at a single point), and thrives on acidic rocks such as granite. Like other lichens, Common Toadskin consists of two organisms; an algal phycobiont (which provides food via photosynthesis) and a fungal mycobiont (which absorbs nutrients from the outside world and provides shelter to the algae).
Scientific name: Lithobates clamitans
Listen when you are near permanent wetlands at night and you just might hear the call of the Green Frog, which is popularly compared to the sound of a loose banjo string. The call of the male Green Frog during their breeding season in late spring and early summer has earned this species its scientific name. While Litho is derived for the Greek word for “stone” and bates means “one who walks or haunts”, clamitans is the Latin word for “loud calling”.
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