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Myosotis petiolata

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

Myosotis petiolata is a perennial forget-me-not, a rosette-forming species endemic to the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand's North Island. It grows on limestone cliffs and bluffs at high elevation and is grown only rarely, so it is best treated as a cool, well-drained rock-garden plant.

Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water regularly during dry spells and let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty or lime-rich soil such as a rock-garden mix
Temperature
5–20 °C; tolerates cool conditions, protect from prolonged heat and hard frost
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New Zealand (North I., NW. South I.)
Climate
temperate

About

Myosotis petiolata is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the Hawkes Bay region of the North Island of New Zealand. Joseph Dalton Hooker described the species in 1853. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes with ebracteate inflorescences and white corollas with exserted stamens.

Where it grows

Myosotis petiolata is currently only known to occur in the Te Waka Range, North Island, New Zealand in the Hawkes Bay region, at c. 900 m ASL, on limestone cliffs and bluffs. It was previously collected in other nearby Hawkes Bay localities.

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 petiolata 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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