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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 rough gray rock with round, flat yellow and orange scaly lichens scattered across its surface.
April 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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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 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.
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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 pale left hand with a black partial glove over the palm holds a small cluster of leafy green lichen with dark undersides.
January 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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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 🌿
June 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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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 pale hand holds a bushy, branching little lichen in bright acid green, attached to a small scrap of dark brown bark.
December 13, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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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
Sunlight shines on a tree trunk completely covered in thick, yellow-green moss with bright green ferns poking out of it.
February 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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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 🌿
May 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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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 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.
March 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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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 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.
February 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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 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.
March 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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It’s Tell a Friend Friday! Please enjoy this picture of a red-sided garter #snake (#Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus)

Then RS this post, or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone you think may be interested in my natural history work.

#TellaFriendFriday #snakes #snek #herps #herpetology #wildlife #PNW
August 23, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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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 cluster of pale blue lichens with flat, branching shapes resting amid blades of green and dry brown grass.
August 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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It’s #TellaFriendFriday! Please enjoy this picture of Woodburn Falls in #Camas, WA. Then RS this or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone interested in my #naturalhistory work or my upcoming book, The Everyday #Naturalist. 

#waterfall #forest #nature #naturephotography #PNW #PacificNorthwest #hiking
November 22, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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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 🌿
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.
July 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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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 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.
December 27, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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It’s #TellaFriendFriday! Please enjoy this picture of a #forest trail in the #Missouri #Ozarks. Then RS or share my site RebeccaLexa.com with someone interested in #nature!
#hiking #outdoors #trees #ecology
A trail through a wooded area with yellow leaves in the trees and on the ground, sunlight casting shadows from left to right, and a blue sky in the background.
November 1, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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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 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.
April 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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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 lush green moss with long, tendril-like strands stretching across a dark brown, rain-soaked dead log studded with tiny algae and lichens.
January 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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 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.
January 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo I took of a #nurselog covered in #lichens and #moss. Then tell someone you know about my work–you can RS this or send folks to RebeccaLexa.com #nature #naturalist #forest
A reddish-brown decaying log covered in patches of pale green lichens and dark green fuzzy moss.
February 9, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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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 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.
August 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social
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 🌿
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".
February 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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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 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.
January 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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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 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.
May 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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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 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.
December 20, 2024 at 7:45 PM