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Myosotis albosericea is a small perennial forget-me-not from the mountains of Otago in New Zealand's South Island, forming loose clumps of silky-haired rosettes with yellow flowers. It is a rare alpine species known from a single population, so it is not a commonly grown garden plant.
Myosotis albosericea is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Joseph Dalton Hooker described the species in 1867. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes which form loose clumps, with ebracteate, erect inflorescences, and yellow corollas.
Myosotis albosericea is a forget-me-not endemic to the mountains of Otago, South Island of New Zealand from 1520–1554 m ASL. M. albosericea is known from only one extant population on dry rock or shingle in cushion fellfield.
Myosotis abyssinica · Myosotis afropalustris · Myosotis albiflora · Alpine Forget-me-not · Myosotis amabilis · Myosotis angustata · Myosotis antarctica · Myosotis arnoldii · Field forget-me-not · Asian forget-me-not · Myosotis australis subsp. australis · Myosotis australis subsp. saruwagedica
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myosotis albosericea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
