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Myosotis tenericaulis

Myosotis tenericaulis
Photo: John Barkla, CC BY 4.0
Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
S. New Zealand North I. to Stewart I.
Climate
temperate

About

Myosotis tenericaulis is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to New Zealand. Donald Petrie described the species in 1918. Plants of this species of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes with creeping, sprawling bracteate inflorescences and white corollas.

Where it grows

Myosotis tenericaulis is endemic to New Zealand, found on all three main islands (North, South and Stewart Islands), from sea level to 1160 m ASL elevation. On the North Island it is found in the ecological district of Southern North Island only, whereas on the South Island it is known from Western Nelson, Sounds-Nelson, Westland, Otago, Southland, and Fiordland.

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 tenericaulis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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