Most of these IDs are (as usual) provisional but almost surely correct. The remainder are undoubtedly correct.
Cryptogams:
Iridescent gametophyte (due to its low-light-tolerance it is basically immune to the cyanobacteria mentioned below)
Noniridescent gametophyte (seems to be slowly dying from cyanobacterial allelopathy)
Asterella californica
Sphaerocarpos
Invertebrates:
That unidentified millipede species I've been posting about (it's visually identical to Cylindrodesmus hirsutus, if I haven't said so here already)
Angiosperms:
Crassula connata (most are dormant seeds, the three that germinated in the summer are growing very slowly due to chronic neglect; admittedly I'm favoritism-ing the Asterella)
Cuscuta californica(?)
Cuscuta subinclusa
Several potatoes and weeds (for feeding dodders)
Sorry, not going to post dodder/Crassula pics here, see previous commentary on marcescent leaves aesthetics crisis (I know dodders have nonexistent or barely visible leaves but I am also suffering from a floral abscission scar aesthetics crisis).
In case I haven't mentioned it subinclusa turns green in low light just like californica(?), and when grown side by side the vegetative parts of the two look noticeably different (subinclusa is thicker on average, able to turn greener, has leaves(?) that are consistently larger, and has little prickles like a cucumber on parts of its stem near the haustoria). I'm going to assume the fleshiness is because subinclusa is a taxon of less arid microhabitats than californica(?), no idea what the prickles do though.
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