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Myosotis traversii subsp. cantabrica

Myosotis traversii subsp. cantabrica
Photo: John Barkla, CC BY 4.0
Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial

About

Myosotis traversii subsp. cantabrica is a subspecies of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the central South Island of New Zealand. Lucy Moore described M. traversii var. cantabrica in 1961 and Heidi Meudt changed its rank to subspecies in 2021. Plants of this subspecies of forget-me-not are perennial rosettes which form tufts or clumps, with ebracteate, erect inflorescences, and white or yellow corollas with partly exserted stamens.

Where it grows

Myosotis traversii subsp. cantabrica is a forget-me-not endemic to the South Island, in Canterbury, Westland and Otago from 690–2280 m ASL, on rocks, shingle, scree, bare, dry, exposed, stony sites in fellfield.

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

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