Day 118: Cladonia fimbriata. They call them "pixie cups," a generic term for a wide variety of Cladonia species which exhibit this distinctive golf-tee shape. They're smaller than the real thing and fairly common in Pacific Northwest forests, but most people pass them by without a second glance. They grow on rotting wood, often colonizing among mosses and other lichens with "similar interests," a world in microcosm amid tall Douglas firs and hemlocks, or even in open areas such as a clearcut in Charles L. Pack Experimental Forest where these were observed today.
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