Baeomyces carneus is a species of terricolous and saxicolous (ground- and rock-dwelling), squamulose lichen in the family Baeomycetaceae.

[2] It was first scientifically described as a new species in 1821 by the German lichenologist Heinrich Gustav Flörke, in his work Deutsche Lichenen ("German Lichens").

It maintains its original name after two centuries of taxonomic history.

[1] The lichen has a circumpolar distribution, typically in coniferous forests but extending north to tundra in North America.

[3] It is widely distributed in the boreal forest region of North America,[4] and also occurs in Europe, New Zealand, the West Indies, and Hawaii.