Diplosoma retroversum pioneering bare ground

Diplosoma retroversum also lives in places like this. The tiny plants are at least bigger than the pebbles visible on the hard, bare ground. The leaf redness increases from hot sunlight as spring turns to summer and the plants go into rest while the leaves dry out. When it gets cooler again, the new leaf grows, snuggling into the skin of the old one, and by winter the plant flowers. The cycle is tough but manageable.

It is the people activities in the plant's domain that upsets the applecart for the species, not primarily the conditions nature provided before human support escalated (Frandsen, 2017; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Smith, et al, 1998; iNaturalist; https://www.worldfloraonline.org).