[Liverworts of Mt. Adams Country]

Common Liverwort, Umbrella Liverwort

Marchantia polymorpha

Synonyms: Marchantia alpestris, Marchantia aquatica

Common Liverwort, Umbrella Liverwort - Marchantia polymorpha (Synonyms: Marchantia alpestris, Marchantia aquatica) - Common Liverwort, Umbrella Liverwort - Marchantia polymorpha (Synonyms: Marchantia alpestris, Marchantia aquatica)

Common liverwort as seen at right on the forest floor along the Stagman Ridge Trail #12 where the trail crosses the ridgeline just west of Grassy Hill, Mount Adams Wilderness..........October 5, 2014. This particular site was burned fairly hard by the Cascade Complex Fire, so much so that very little has regrown on the ground at this particular location. The photo at right shows common liverwort growing on severely burned soils resulting from the 2015 Cougar Creek Fire. Photo taken between Bird Lake and Bird Creek, Bird Creek Meadows, Mount Adams, Yakama Nation lands.........September 1, 2017.

Unidentified Liverwort #1 - Common Liverwort, Umbrella Liverwort - Marchantia polymorpha (Synonyms: Marchantia alpestris, Marchantia aquatica)

Common liverwort on a wet bank along FS Rd 551 about one mile east of FS Rd 21, on the west side of Mt. Adams, Gifford Pinchot NF..........May 30, 2011.

Common Liverwort, Umbrella Liverwort - Marchantia polymorpha (Synonyms: Marchantia alpestris, Marchantia aquatica)

Common liverwort on the forest floor along the Stagman Ridge Trail #12 where the trail crosses the ridgeline just west of Grassy Hill, Mount Adams Wilderness..........October 5, 2014.

Common Liverwort, Umbrella Liverwort - Marchantia polymorpha (Synonyms: Marchantia alpestris, Marchantia aquatica)

Common liverwort growing on the moist western shoreline of the Klickitat River at the point where the river breached the Company Road about 6 or 7 miles north of Horseshoe Bend Road............July 21, 2011.

Common Liverwort, Umbrella Liverwort - Marchantia polymorpha (Synonyms: Marchantia alpestris, Marchantia aquatica)

Common liverwort growing on sandy soils at the base of the washed out bridge over the Klickitat River at Suburbia (upstream from Klickitat, WA)............October 23, 2011.

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