Lichens and Mosses on Granite Outcrop

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Lichens and mosses grow on a granite outcrop at Panola Mountain State Park in Stockbridge. As resurrection plants, lichens and mosses are able to resume photosynthesis after a drought, making them ideally suited to the desert-like conditions on the outcrops.

Photograph by Melinda Smith Mullikin, New Georgia Encyclopedia

Lichens and Mosses on Granite Outcrop

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