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A small alpine forget-me-not from the mountains of the South Island of New Zealand, forming loose clumps of rosettes with prostrate flowering stems. It is a cold, exposed-site plant, so the key to growing it is cool conditions and excellent drainage.
Myosotis lyallii subsp. lyallii is a subspecies of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Joseph Dalton Hooker described M. lyallii in 1853. Plants of this subspecies of forget-me-not are perennial with a prostrate habit, bracteate or partially-bracteate inflorescences, and white corollas, usually with exserted anthers.
Myosotis lyallii subsp. lyallii is a forget-me-not endemic to the mountains of western areas of the South Island New Zealand from 900–1980 m ASL in the following ecological districts: Western Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, and Fiordland. M. lyallii subsp. lyallii is an occasional plant in exposed, steep, rocky sites in fellfields and tussock-herbfields.
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
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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.
