Peltigera praetextata

Peltigera praetextata has flat lobes up to 5 cm (2 in) long, and often forms circular growth patterns.^[2] It is dark green when wet, often with a reddish centre, and greyish when dry.^[2] It is tomentous, or covered with fine hairs.^[2] It does not reproduce vegetatively using isidia or soredia like most lichens, but using phyllidia.^[3][4] It is often fertile as well, with round to saddle-shaped red apothecial discs.^[2][4]

Although often found over moss or tree bark, P. praetextata may also be found on bare soil. It is common throughout temperate and boreal ecosystems.^[2]