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Myosotis arvensis
Also called Common Forget Me Not, Field Scorpion Grass, Rough Forget Me Not, Forget Me Not, Field Scorpiongrass
Field forget-me-not is a small annual to short-lived perennial wildflower with tiny grey-blue flowers, common on open, well-drained ground. It is a wild plant rather than a common garden or houseplant, and it does best in sunny, open spots.
Myosotis arvensis or field forget-me-not is a herbaceous annual to short lived perennial flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is native to Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Siberia, the western Himalayas, and northwestern Africa. The plant is annual to perennial, erect, to 40 centimetres (16 in) and patent-hairy (hairs more-or-less at right-angles to the stem). The flowers are grey-blue, 3–5 millimetres (1⁄8–13⁄64 in) across, saucer shaped in profile, the sepal tube with hooked hairs. The mature fruits are dark brown, shiny nutlets. In the British Isles the plant is an archaeophyte, common throughout the isles on open, well-drained ground.
Two subspecies and one variety are accepted.
Alpine 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 arvensis 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.
