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Myosotis sylvatica |
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Garden Forget Me Not, Woodland Forget Me Not |
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3-8 |
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Northern Europe and
Asia |
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6-8 inches tall and 6 inches wide. |
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Tiny light blue
flowers with yellow centers, 1/5 inch wide, borne in
loose terminal racemes. Corolla is rotate to salver form and
5 lobed calyx is 5 lobed. |
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Spring is the peak
sporadic flowering until midsummer. |
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Alternate, simple and entire,
oblong-linear to oblong lanceolate, mostly
sessile |
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- var. alba - White flowers
- 'Blue Ball' - Round plants with indigo
blue flowers
- 'Victoria Blue' - Gentian blue flowers, early
flowering.
- 'Victoria Rose' - Pink flowers, early
flowering.
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Myosotis is from the Greek
words mus, mouse and ous, ear and refers to
the mouse-like shape of the leaves. |