| Scientific Name: | Xanthoria spp. |
| Common Name: | yellow lichen |
| Family Name: | Teloschistaceae |
| Origin: | B.C. east of Cascades, B.C. west of Cascades |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | < 0.1m x < 0.1m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Reclamation |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Lobed, Oblong, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Orange, May-Jun |
| Key ID Features: | |
| A foliose lichen (a fungus with a green alga symbiont); commonly epiphytic on tree bark; thallose upper surface pale to bright orange, most 2-8cm wide, bearing orange spore forming apothecia that are <2mm wide. | |