I see this everywhere on the Canadian Shield in Ontario, for context
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I was reading thru the Wikipedia article on this to see if I could figure out which it might be, and even tho I didn’t find any likely looking ones (they seem to mostly be branching rather than plating like these ones?) I did find something fun:
If you go to the species subheading, you can see how somebody has added pictures for each one… for the first ten or so. It looks like they realized how fucking many of these things there are and gave up, which is just hilarious environmental storytelling imo