CA, Southern California, 20080710
Madison Heights, lichen and flower. 

Candelaria concolor [] 

Two tiny (but very healthy) patches on south side of magnolia on NW corner of Alpine and Magnolia about 2-3 feet up from ground.

Flower with scale, top view, blurry. Flower and capsule. Plant, pulled out, on sidewalk. Flower, quarter view. Flower, quarter view. Close-up of 3 tepals, at 10x. 

Sisyrinchium rosulatum [] 

 GEN annual (very small tuft of fibrous roots and no sign of previous year's growth)
 ST do not have any leafy nodes
 INFL pair of unequal lat comp bracts (15mm and 25mm with 1mm scarious margin tapering to tip), pedicels ~20mm, 2 fls
 PET tepals taper to very narrow points, ~8-10mm long, light blue/lavender in the upper half, yellow below, scattered spreading to ascending clear trichomes outside
 STAM filaments joined and inflated below with stipitate glands, 2.0mm long, 0.7mm of base stip-glandular

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