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Myosotis arvensis

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Myosotis arvensis or field forget-me-not is a herbaceous annual to short lived perennial flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is native to Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Siberia, the western Himalayas, and northwestern Africa. The plant is annual to perennial, erect, to 40 centimetres (16 in) and patent-hairy. The flowers are grey-blue, 3–5 millimetres across, saucer shaped in profile, the sepal tube with hooked hairs. The mature fruits are dark brown, shiny nutlets. In the British Isles the plant is an archaeophyte, common throughout the isles on open, well-drained ground.

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Ecology

How it lives

Propagated by
Seed
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Name
Myosotis arvensis
Slug
myosotis-arvensis
Kingdom
Plantae
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Myosotis
Species
arvensis
Wikidata QID
Q163582
Propagule type
seed
Container suitable
No
Indoor suitable
No
OSSI pledged
No
Hazard level
1
Data completeness
43

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