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Myosotis glabrescens

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

A tight, mat-forming alpine forget-me-not from the South Island of New Zealand, growing in wet subalpine shingle and stream headwaters. Grow it as a cool, moist, gritty-soiled rock garden or alpine trough plant, and keep it cool and well drained.

Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist in the growing season but never waterlogged; water freely in summer and reduce in winter.
Soil
Gritty, free-draining but moisture-retentive mix, such as loam with grit or coarse sand.
Temperature
10–20 °C; tolerates cold winters, protect from prolonged hot, humid conditions
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. New Zealand South I. (Otago lakes distr.)
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Myosotis glabrescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Lucy Moore described the species in 1961. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are tightly compacted, perennial mats with bracteate inflorescences and white corollas.

Where it grows

Myosotis glabrescens is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand in Otago, from 1400 to 1830 m ASL. M. glabrescens is found in wet areas including stream headwaters in high-elevation, subalpine shingle banks.

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 glabrescens 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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