Common name: Wood Forget-Me-Not, Woodland Forget-me-not
Botanical name:Myosotis sylvaticaFamily:Boraginaceae (Forget-me-not family) Synonyms: Myosotis sylvatica var. sylvatica
Wood Forget-Me-Not is a perennial herb up to a foot
tall. Flowers are borne in short and crowded clusters, which become
loose and elongated in fruiting time. Calyx is 1/2 to 3/4th parted into
lanceshaped sepals, covered with spreading hairs, base gradually (not
abruptly) tapering, in fruit wide open. Flowers are 5-7 mm across, blue
or bluish-purple. Fruiting calyx is up to 16 mm apart. Fruiting
flower-stalk exceeds calyx length. Stem is erect, simple, sometimes
with few branches, sparsely to densely vinous. Basal leaves are
elliptic-oblong to inverted-lanceshaped, 3-5 x 1.5-3 cm. Stem leaves
are inverted-lanceshaped, sometimes lanceshaped-blunt, apiculate,
uppermost ones similar but smaller and stalkless. Nutlets are about 1.5
mm, oblong, upper half keeled ventrally, somewhat pointed at tip with a
narrow margin all around, blackish-brown, smooth and shiny. Wood
Forget-Me-Not is found in the Himalayas, from Pakistan, Kashmir
eastward to Bhutan, at altitudes of 1800-4000 m. It is also found in N.
Africa, Europe, Turkey, USSR. Flowering: June-August.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed below Gulmarg, Kashmir.
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