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Myosotis spatulata is a small perennial forget-me-not from New Zealand, forming low rosettes with white flowers on creeping stems. It is a wild native rather than a common garden plant, and it prefers moist, shaded, base-rich rocky sites.
Myosotis spatulata is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to New Zealand. Georg Forster described the species in 1786. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes with bracteate inflorescences and white corollas.
M. spatulata is distributed across many plant communities in both the North and South Islands. It is listed as Naturally Uncommon by the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
Myosotis spatulata is endemic to New Zealand, and has a large geographical distribution throughout the North and South Islands from 0–1500 m elevation. On the North Island, it is found in: Northland, Auckland, Volcanic Plateau, Gisborne and Southern North Island; on the South Island it is known from Sounds-Nelson, Canterbury, Otago and Fiordland. It is also present on several offshore islands, including Manawatāwhi / Three Kings; Aotea / Great Barrier; Taranga / Hen and Chickens; Moutohora / Whale; and Chatham Islands.
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 spatulata 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.
