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Myosotis cheesemanii

Myosotis cheesemanii
Photo: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, CC BY 4.0

Myosotis cheesemanii is a small alpine forget-me-not, a perennial rosette plant with white flowers, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. It is a wild mountain species rarely grown in gardens, and it needs cool, well-drained, gritty conditions.

Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly in the growing season and let the surface dry slightly between waterings, avoiding waterlogging.
Soil
Gritty, free-draining mix with added grit or stone chips.
Temperature
Cool conditions suited to its subalpine origin; protect from prolonged heat above about 25 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. New Zealand South I.
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Myosotis cheesemanii is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Donald Petrie described the species in 1886. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes with bracteate inflorescences and white corollas.

Where it grows

Myosotis cheesemanii is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand in Otago, from (780–)1700–1800 m ASL m elevation. M. cheesemanii is found in herbfields, on steep shingle faces, at the base of schist tors, or near snowdrifts.

Other Myosotis plants

Myosotis abyssinica · Myosotis afropalustris · Myosotis albiflora · Myosotis albosericea · Alpine Forget-me-not · Myosotis amabilis · Myosotis angustata · Myosotis antarctica · Myosotis arnoldii · Field forget-me-not · Asian forget-me-not · Myosotis australis subsp. australis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Myosotis cheesemanii 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.

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