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§1 Plant

Heterodermia neglecta Lendemer, R.C. Harris & E.A. Tripp

vernacular Blue Ridge shield lichen — species · Physciaceae

USDA
HENE8
GBIF
10779868 syn.
Rank
species
Blue Ridge shield lichen (Heterodermia neglecta)
Platephotograph · Colin Chapman-LamCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Lichenous
Group
Lichen
Family
Physciaceae Zahlbr.
Genus
Heterodermia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • NA NA Native
§2b

County-level range

· 12 counties across 3 states/territories
Legend Native · 12 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 12 counties across 3 states/territories.

Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/HENE8 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/10779868 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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