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Growing near/on exposed shale in thin soil. Unfortunately, I did not have a loupe to examine stem hairs, but they are clearly spreading. Aerial parts of the stem are glabrous and glaucous. The basal leaf hairs are obviously bifurcate in photos, and with ciliate margins. Cauline leaves glabrous and clasping. Keying from Borodinia/Arabis led to Arabis pycnocarpa, but Turritis glabra looks better and perhaps was missed by bypassing an earlier key.

This observation is for whatever is causing the deformed leaves on this Alliaria petiolata (prev obs).
I saw a number of Alliaria petiolata with these types of deformed leaves. They were in different places, most of which aren't likely to be sprayed with any kinds of pesticides. I looked pretty carefully, and none of them had any aphids or other apparent causative agents.
(tag: mystery alliaria leaf curl)

Growing on dead hardwood log in mixed woods.
Dark flexible cap surface with light margin that can be long, along the log for a few feet.
Light pore surface that can be a few times larger than cap area.
Spiky/toothy pore surface.

ORANGE photos were night before and GREEN were the next morning, less than 12 hours later.
Indented, cup shaped, many in a group. Bright orange night before then changing to green cap with red stipe.
Growing on cut log. Log possibly box elder.

Located in mixed woods/conifer forest, compacted sandy soil, scattered; fruit body up to 4cm wide, somewhat round/slightly compressed; colors becoming mottled, ranging from yellowish-orange/tan to dark-brown/black in maturity, tints of reddish-brown seen in images #8-12; fibrils numerous, rhizomorphous strands; spore mass cream-buff when young, olive-yellow in age; spore dispersal via insects (image #2).

Seen on a field trip organized by the Natural History Society of Maryland to Hart-Miller Island. We had a great tour led by three knowledgeable guides. Thanks to NHSM and Maryland Environmental Service for making this trip possible!

My observations from the trip today, including a few from the MES property before leaving to Hart-Miller Island:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=39.400855564076046&nelng=-76.18659509868222&on=2023-07-14&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&swlat=39.1819111227571&swlng=-76.42829431743222&user_id=joemdo&verifiable=any