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Kinelworth Ivy (Cymbalaria muralis P. Taetn., B. Mey. & Scherb) 

Thanks to Roy West of Calflora for this identification.  It had me stumped.  I knew the probably family but since it is not native, I could not find it.  Supposedly, it is found all across the U.S. but this was my first exposure to this one. It grew in the rock clefts of the stairs of Point Reyes Lighthouse.  The flowers are positively phototrophic until fertilized and then become negatively phototrophic after fertilization and bend into the clefts of rocks to insure the seeds have a place to root.

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