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Myosotis alpestris
Alpine forget-me-not is a low, hardy perennial with small blue flowers, native to mountain and northern grasslands and widely grown in cool gardens. It does best in cool summers, moist but well-drained soil and partial shade.
Myosotis alpestris, the alpine forget-me-not, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. The alpine forget-me-not is the county flower of Westmorland in the United Kingdom.
Its native distribution includes much of western, southern and central Europe and the Caucasus, east to central Asia. In Great Britain it occurs in only two localities, in limestone grassland in the North Pennines, and at high elevation on mica schist on and nearby Ben Lawers.
Field forget-me-not · Changing forget-me-not · Broadleaf forget-me-not · Woodland forget-me-not · Forget-me-not
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myosotis alpestris 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.
