<p>Scientific Name: <i>Psora decipiens</i> (Hedwig) Hoffm.
Common Name: Blushing Scale
Certainty: positive (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bornnaturalist.org/notes/20060416#10">notes</a>)
Location: Colorado Plateau; Escalante; Cottonwood Spring
Date: 20060416
</p>
Close-up of squamules, at 30x.  The black spots are budding apothecia.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/7147684@N03">Jason Hollinger</a>
CC BY 2.0
<p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7147684@N03/1293854160/">Blushing Scale</a>
</p>
<ul><li>Uploaded by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Amada44" title="User:Amada44">Amada44</a></li></ul>