In the morning sun

 

Pyropia gardneri, a pretty little red seaweed that grows on the blades of kelps.  In our area, it's often found on Laminaria setchellii (see the brown blade at the bottom of the photo).  It's fun that the two seaweeds involved are named after important phycologists — William Albert Setchell and Nathaniel Lyon Gardner — who made significant contributions to our knowledge and appreciation of West Coast seaweeds and were instrumental in establishing and curating the University Herbarium.  (Both were professors at UC Berkeley in the early 1900s.)