Green-tongue Liverwort
Green-tongue Liverwort
Marchantia polymorpha
Marchantia Family or Marchantiaceae
A primitive plant with multiple, wavy-margined, flat, bright green, thin lobes growing parallel to the ground. Each lobe has a darkish line down the middle. A unique feature is the umbrella-like fruiting bodies on long stalks.
Photographed - mid-June
at Eagle Lake
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