A close-up photo of a dull gray circle of metal embedded in dark brown, well-worn wood with scattered conifer needles on it. Around the metal is a pale yellow foamy substance.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of Fuligo septica (the metal post is 3/4" in diameter). Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory work & my book The Everyday #Naturalist. #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes #SlimeMolds #Myxogastria #FungiFriends #plasmodium

A close-up photo of the underside of sun shining through a few green fern fronds with chunky, rounded-tipped leaflets. There are two neat rows of dark brown spots on each leaflet. Delicate spiderwebs trace lines in the spaces between leaflets, and a bit of blue sky can be seen in the background.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of a leathery polypody #fern. Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory work, including my book The Everyday #Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, #Plants and Fungi Wherever You Go #NativePlants #PNW #NaturePhotography

A photo of several plants with flat, round leaves that have a stippled texture and are deep green, growing low to the ground amid grasses and other plants.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy these Conocephalum #liverworts. Then RS, or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory work and my book, The Everyday #Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, #Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go. #NativePlants #PNW #bryophyes #botany

A close-up photo of a cluster of pale blue lichens with flat, branching shapes resting amid blades of green and dry brown grass.

It's #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of a #lichen cluster (and tiny leafhopper friend). Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who'll like my #NaturalHistory work and my #book The Everyday #Naturalist! #fungi #FungiFriends #NaturePhotography #insects #Oregon #PNW

A close-up photo of a very soft, oval-shaped feather with light brown and white stripes with fuzzy edges, resting on dry brown soil littered with dry plant materials.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy these photos of a barn #owl #feather. Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone to see my #NaturalHistory work, including my #book The Everyday #Naturalist: How to Identify #Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go. #birds #owls #animals #wildlife #nature

A photo of a yellow and black moth that looks very much like a yellowjacket wasp, but the moth's long slender tongue is visible as it seeks nectar in a cluster of yellow flowers.

A photo of the same moth as before, but showing the black and yellow striped abdomen more clearly.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy these photos of a fireweed clearwing #moth (Albuna pyramidalis) on tansy #ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) flowers. Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone you think may be interested in my natural history work and my book, The Everyday #Naturalist. #Lepidoptera

A photo of a small flies with large red eyes and a tan and black striped abdomen resting on a cluster of small white flowers with six white pointed petals and yellow pollen-heavy centers, growing from a slender green vine.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of a #hoverfly (Melanostoma mellinum?) on coast manroot #flowers (Marah oreganus). Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may be interested in my #NaturalHistory work.
#NativePlants #PNW #wildlife #insects #nature #BloomScrolling #bugs 🌿

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of a licorice #fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza). Then RS, or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory classes, tours, and writing. #plants #NativePlants #ferns #moss #trees #Oregon #PNW #PacificNorthwest 🌿

A close-up photo of a flower with three fuzzy, cat-eat-shaped petals and a purple center, growing amid green grass and leaves.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of an elegant Mariposa #lily ( #Calochortus elegans). Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory writing, classes and tours. #BloomScrolling #NativePlants #wildflowers #Oregon #PNW #PacificNorthwest #NaturePhotography 🌿

A flower with three long, slender purple petals with lacy white centers, interspersed with three shorter, plainer purple petals, against a background of green ferns, grasses, and other plants.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of an #Oregon #iris (Iris tenax) #flower. Then RS, or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory writing, classes, and tours. #BloomScrolling #PNW #PacificNorthwest #wildflowers #NativePlants #NaturePhotography 🌿

A close-up photo of long, slender blue-green leaves radiating out from a center stem, with rain drops nestled like diamonds among the leaves, with the biggest in the very center.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of #rain on a #Lupinus sp. #leaf. Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory writing (including my forthcoming book The Everyday #Naturalist!), classes, and tours. #lupine #NativePlants #PNW #NaturePhotography #water

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of red osier #dogwood. Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone you think may be interested in my #NaturalHistory writing, classes, and tours. #NativePlants #PNW #BloomScrolling #Nature #PacificNorthwest #Oregon 🌿

A plant with long, slender green grass-like leaves, and a single blue and white flower with sprawling, arching petals spreading out from the center, and yellow highlights in the middle of the petals. It grows from the ground covered in dry leaves and fresh green growth.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of a dwarf crested #iris (Iris cristata). Then RS this or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory work! #plants #NativePlants #flowers #wildflowers #nature #NaturePhotography 🌿

A low, spreading tree covered in a lace of white flowers stands in a forest surrounded by larger trees and shrubs, above a green forest floor.

It's #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of flowering #dogwood (Cornus florida). Then RS this or share RebeccaLexa.com with someone who may enjoy my #NaturalHistory work. #trees #forest #Missouri #Ozarks #NaturePhotography #NativePlants 🌿

A rough gray rock with round, flat yellow and orange scaly lichens scattered across its surface.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of Xanthorioideae #lichens. Then RS this or send RebeccaLexa.com to folks who may like my #NaturalHistory classes, writing and tours. #fungi #FungiFriends #nature #NaturePhotography #rocks 🌿

A close up of a plant with green, heart-shaped leaves, and a single flower with five yellow rounded petals; the bottom petal has several vertical dark lines from the center of the flower to partway down the petal.

It’s #TellaFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of a stream #violet (Viola glabella).Then RS this or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone interested in #NaturalHistory, including my forthcoming book The Everyday #Naturalist! #nature #NatureIdentification #wildflowers #NativePlants #PNW #PacificNorthwest

A faded green metal bathroom stall wall with a large male stag beetle with large horns on its face on either side of its mouth drawn in pale cream marker.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of unexpected #StagBeetle #graffiti in a #Portland bar bathroom. Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory work. #StreetArt #UrbanArt #beetles #insects #invertebrates #arthropods #Oregon #bugs 🌿

A slender, somewhat pointed brown conifer cone with little three-tailed bark-like structures protruding from between the scales. The cone rests on a forest floor with leaves and sticks and other natural debris.

It's #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of a #DouglasFir cone. Then RS this or send my website RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory classes, writing and tours. (Thank you!) #plants #NativePlants #trees #PNW #nature #NaturePhotography 🌿

A close-up photo of a nice assortment of lichens growing on dark brown tree bark with long, prominent grooves on it. There's a big, fuzzy-looking branching pale blue lichen in the center and a tinier version of it to the left, with some scaly pale blue lichens around the edges, and crusty yellow lichens filling in some of the gaps.

It's #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of a nice assortment of #lichens. Then tell RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory writing, tours and classes. #NatureIdentification #author #NaturePhotography #fungi #FungiFriday #FungiFriends 🌿

A photo of a flat white lichen in a heart shape on the rough brown and gray bark of a tree. The picture is set within a light green square, which itself is within a larger olive colored square. Text above the photo says "I'm Lichen You, Valentine!" and text below says "From Phlyctis argena".

Just a short #ValentinesDay message from one of the most common #lichens in the #Portland area for #TellAFriendFriday today! RS to help others find out about my #NaturalHistory work at RebeccaLexa.com. #fungi #FungiFriends #Valentine #Oregon #PNW 🌿

Sunlight shines on a tree trunk completely covered in thick, yellow-green moss with bright green ferns poking out of it.

It's #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of licorice #ferns and Douglas' neckera #moss. Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who likes #NaturalHistory! #plants #NativePlants #forest #nature #NaturePhotography #outdoors #hiking #naturalist

A tree with gray-brown rough bark and green moss tendrils reaching out from the top of the photo. At the center is an uneven line of small, oval-shaped holes.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this picture of red-breasted #sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) holes. Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may be interested in my #NaturalHistory work.
#tree #moss #plants #woodpecker #birds #birbs #animals #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography 🌿

A close up photo of a caterpillar with a black body almost entirely obscured by long, light brown fuzzy hairs with a few black hairs mixed in as well, resting on a plant with round, yellow flowers, some of which have dried out to more of an orange as they've died back for the year.

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of a Spilosomina #caterpillar on tansy ragwort. Then RS this or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory work! #Lepidoptera #insects #invertebrates #NaturePhotography #moths #plants #InvasiveSpecies #wildlife #animals #nature 🌿

A close up photo of drooping tree branches with dark green clusters of needles and long, pointed, red-brown cones with little flaps of leaf-like material between the scales.

It’s #TellaFriendFriday! Please enjoy this picture of a #DouglasFir tree (Pseudotsuga menziesii). Then RS this or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory writing, classes and tours! #trees #conifer #plants #NativePlants #nature #NaturePhotography 🌿

A pale left hand with a black partial glove over the palm holds a small cluster of leafy green lichen with dark undersides.

It’s #TellaFriendFriday! Please enjoy this picture of a well-hydrated tube #lichen ( #Hypogymnia sp.) Then RT this or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may be interested in my #nature themed writing, classes and tours! #fungi #naturalhistory #naturephotography #fungifriends 🍄🌿

A lush green moss with long, tendril-like strands stretching across a dark brown, rain-soaked dead log studded with tiny algae and lichens.

It’s #TellaFriendFriday! Please enjoy this picture of an intricate #moss (Homalothecium sp?) on a nurse #log. Then RS this or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #naturalhistory writing/classes/etc. #nature #plants #nativeplants #forest #Oregon #PNW #PacificNorthwest #naturephotography 🌿

A close up picture of a conifer's flat, scaly dark green needles with a small pale blue-green lichen composed of a rosette of flat branches growing on them.

It’s #TellaFriendFriday! Please enjoy this picture of oakmoss #lichen (Evernia prunastri) on western red #cedar (Thuja plicata) needles. Then RS this or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone interested in my #naturalhistory work. #hiking #outdoors #fungi #plants #trees #nature #PNW #PacificNorthwest

A picture of a lake with dark green water, framed by the branches of a drooping conifer tree, and dry red conifer needles on the ground and floating in the water. The lake's water reflects a line of conifers on the opposite bank, and a bit of fog hangs over the water on the left side of the scene.

It’s #TellaFriendFriday! Please enjoy this picture of the pond at #LaurelhurstPark in #Portland, OR. Then RS this or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who likes #naturalhistory. #trees #nature #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Oregon #landscape #photography #park #water #mist #fog

A pale hand holds a bushy, branching little lichen in bright acid green, attached to a small scrap of dark brown bark.

It’s #TellaFriendFriday! Please enjoy this picture of brown-eyed wolf #lichen (Letharia columbiana) Then RS or send Rebeccalexa.com to someone who likes #naturalhistory #Lichens #fungi #fungifriends #nature #Oregon #PNW #PacificNorthwest #outdoors #hiking #naturephotography #naturalist #mycology

A hillside sloping from left to right, covered in tall, dry, reddish-brown grasses and small green plants, with a rock half-hidden in the foreground, and a clear blue sky overhead.

It’s #TellaFriendFriday! Please enjoy this picture of a #tallgrass community at #KonzaPrairie in the #FlintHills of #Kansas. Then RS this or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone interested in my #naturalhistory work.

#nature #naturephotography #prairie #tallgrassprairie #grassland #landscapephotography