Lungwort Lobaria pulmonaria Epiphitic lichens and bryophytes grow in profusion on trees and rocks on Scotland’s west coast, Benefitting from the relatively mild climate and high rainfall. Bark on the trunks of oak and hazel woods is rarely visible.

Pannaria rubginosa, a squamulose lichen

Pseudocyphellaria crocata, a lichen of old growth woodland.

A leafy liverwort, Plagiochila porelloides