OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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 laxa ssp. laxa   FAMILY Boraginaceae   Go to FSUS key

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myosotis laxa   FAMILY Boraginaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Myosotis laxa

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-07-002:

Myosotis laxa   FAMILY Boraginaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Myosotis laxa

 

COMMON NAME:
 Smaller Forget-me-not, Marsh Forget-me-not, Tufted Forget-me-not

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image of Myosotis laxa ssp. laxa, Smaller Forget-me-not, Marsh Forget-me-not, Tufted Forget-me-not

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_myla_001_lvd

        

image of Myosotis laxa ssp. laxa, Smaller Forget-me-not, Marsh Forget-me-not, Tufted Forget-me-not

JK Marlow    jkm0405h_19

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Blue flowers with a yellow eye, found in wet places, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).

image of Myosotis laxa ssp. laxa, Smaller Forget-me-not, Marsh Forget-me-not, Tufted Forget-me-not

JK Marlow    jkm160516_725

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Myosotis laxa ssp. laxa, Smaller Forget-me-not, Marsh Forget-me-not, Tufted Forget-me-not

JK Marlow    jkm160516_727

May    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Myosotis laxa ssp. laxa, Smaller Forget-me-not, Marsh Forget-me-not, Tufted Forget-me-not

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmmyosotis_laxa

June-July?        

image of Myosotis laxa ssp. laxa, Smaller Forget-me-not, Marsh Forget-me-not, Tufted Forget-me-not

JK Marlow    jkm080705_150

July    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Flowers about 0.2" wide, smaller than M. scorpiodes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Myosotis laxa ssp. laxa, Smaller Forget-me-not, Marsh Forget-me-not, Tufted Forget-me-not

JK Marlow    jkm080705_152

July    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Leaves oblong-lanceolate to spatulate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Myosotis laxa ssp. laxa, Smaller Forget-me-not, Marsh Forget-me-not, Tufted Forget-me-not

JK Marlow    jkm120815_785

August    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

 

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myosotis laxa   FAMILY Boraginaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
 Myosotis laxa

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-07-002:
 Myosotis laxa   FAMILY Boraginaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Myosotis laxa

 

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959

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: marshes, streambanks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Common in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in NC

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Blue (with a yellow eye)
Bisexual
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed salverform corolla
Superior ovary

Flowers in terminal, helicoid, false racemes

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

 

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