BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Solorina spongiosa
blinking owl
| Scientific Name: | Solorina spongiosa (Ach.) Anzi | ||||||||||
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| English Name: | blinking owl | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Esslinger, T.L. and R.S. Egan. 1995. A sixth checklist of the lichen-forming, lichenicolous, and allied fungi of the continental United States and Canada. The Bryologist 98(4):467-549. As supplied by USDA, NRCS from The PLANTS database. National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA. Version: November 19, 1997. | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Species | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Lichen | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | SOLOSPO | ||||||||||
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| Global Status: | G5 (Jan 2025) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S4 (Mar 2018) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Yellow | ||||||||||
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| Global Habitat Comments: | Solorina spongiosa grows on damp soil in alpine areas, tundra, streambanks, soil pockets in cliffs and rock outcrops, forest edges, roadsides, and abandoned quarries (Nimis 2025, CLH 2025). | ||||||||||
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| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | Solorina spongiosa is widely distributed in temperate and boreal areas of the northern hemisphere with scattered outliers in New Zealand and Antarctica (GBIF 2025, CLH 2025). In Washington state, North America, this lichen species is rare in moss mats with calcareous seepage (McCune and Geiser 1997). Range extent was estimated using herbarium specimens collected between 1994 and 2025 (GBIF 2025, CLH 2025). | ||||||||||
| Disjunct, more common elsewhere: | N | ||||||||||
| Peripheral, major distribution elsewhere: | N | ||||||||||
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| Global Information Author: | Johnson, J. (2025) | ||||||||||
| Last Updated: | Jan 31, 2025 | ||||||||||
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Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. 2025. Species Summary: Solorina spongiosa. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 14, 2026).