NameThatPlant.net: Myosotis arvensis

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Myosotis arvensis FAMILY Boraginaceae Go to FSUS key

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Read more about Field Forget-me-not at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myosotis arvensis FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Myosotis arvensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-07-005:

Myosotis arvensis FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Myosotis arvensis

COMMON NAME:
Field Forget-me-not, Field Scorpion-grass

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image of Myosotis arvensis, Field Forget-me-not, Field Scorpion-grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_myar_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Myosotis arvensis FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myosotis arvensis FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Myosotis arvensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-07-005:
Myosotis arvensis FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Myosotis arvensis

3315

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Roadsides, fields, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Eurasia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Blue
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed salverform corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in terminal, helicoid, false racemes

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p136

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