reindeer moss

Reindeer moss is grayish in color and may grow to be 6 inches (15 cm) high.

They mainly eat lichens in winter, especially reindeer moss.

Reindeer moss, the staple diet of the deer herds, was also said to have disappeared completely.

Other common names include reindeer moss and caribou moss.

Yellow reindeer moss is really a lichen.

The reindeer moss and cup lichens (Cladonia) belong to this family.

We call it reindeer moss.

After an hour of this, we began to feel rock under foot, and our moccasins crushed patches of reindeer moss, dry as powder.

The corrugated tin roof of the empty cabin gleamed above a meadow carpeted with pale reindeer moss.

Reindeer Moss, a lichen.

Nonflowering plants include reindeer moss and glade moss.

Nothing grew on the plateau but yellow and black scabby lichen, reindeer moss, and a few alpine herbs.

I ate reindeer moss at Noma, deep- fried, spiced with cèpes, and deliciously crisp.

Jackpine and muskeg and reindeer moss and water - lake after lake.

Clumps of reindeer moss grow over large areas of tundra and other northern regions, where they are the food of reindeer.

Reindeer moss is Cladina rangiferina.

Yellow and Grey Reindeer moss (Cladonia mitis) provide ground cover.

Reindeer Moss (Cladonia rangiferina) is a common species.

Typical of Østerdalen is that large parts of the forest floor are covered with reindeer moss, a variety of lichen.

This also enables them to dig down (an activity known as "cratering") through the snow to their favorite food, a lichen known as reindeer moss.

Hazel, blueberries, sweet fern, bearberry, wintergreen, bracken and reindeer moss provide lush ground cover.

An old baptismal font, picked up for $20 at an antiques shop, is planted with reindeer moss, little sedums and partridgeberry.

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Better-drained uplands have thinner soils and a ground cover of grey-green lichens, notably Cladonia spp., the so-called reindeer mosses.

The gardeners took out hundreds of sugar maple, red oak and hemlock seedlings to reveal the reindeer moss under white birches, the hay-scented ferns beneath the beeches.