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Myosotis matthewsii

Myosotis matthewsii
Photo: naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0

Myosotis matthewsii is a small perennial forget-me-not from northern New Zealand, growing as a low rosette with white flowers, found in the wild on damp, shady forest floors. Its key to growing is cool, moist, shaded conditions.

Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist but not waterlogged, especially in warm weather.
Soil
Humus-rich, moisture-retentive, free-draining mix.
Temperature
10–20 °C; protect below 0 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NW. New Zealand North I.
Climate
subtropical

About

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

Where it grows

Myosotis matthewsii is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand in the Warawara Forest in Northland, from 65 to 300 m ASL. M. matthewsii is found on the forest floor in damp, shady, rocky sites of low broadleaf secondary forest.

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 matthewsii 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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