Lichen & Moss Lover Hats

A lichen is not a plant. It is a fungus living with an alga or cyanobacterium, and the relationship is lopsided: the alga can survive outside it, the fungus cannot. The Field Museum has even written up a lichen with two fungi sharing one alga. Most lichens grow roughly half a millimeter to five millimeters a year, which makes staring at one for forty minutes a perfectly reasonable use of an afternoon. These lichen and moss hats are for the people who do exactly that. Lichen puns already sell on tees, HOW YOU LICHEN ME NOW among them, while lichen hats are scarce, so the pun lines get a hat of their own here, along with a second colorway of two favorites. Tufts even has an I Love Lichen Club for appreciating the stuff in a non-judgemental space, which is the register behind LICHEN CLUB, NEXT MEETING: 2126. The moss side comes from the r/NoLawns crowd: moss lawns suit shady, acidic yards and save water, time and fertilizer, and one admiring commenter said of a nearly all-moss yard that a witch totally lives there. Two badges, LICHEN LOVER and MOSS LOVER, give the page its plain search terms. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the trailhead, the rock wall, or the front lawn you stopped mowing.