Common name:
Field forget-me-not
Family:
Scientific name:
Myosotis arvensis
Main flower color:
Range:
All parts of the UK; least common in the Scottish Highlands
Height:
Up to 25 cm
Habitat:
Dry woodland, fields, roadsides, disturbed ground, dry grassland, dunes
Flowers:
Small, around 3 mm in diameter, with five blue lobes and a corolla tube shorter than the purplish calyx. The appendages at the centre are white or yellow. Calyces and pedicels have a covering of spreading white hairs. Pedicels are longer than the calyx, Flowers form as a branched, flat-topped cluster
Leaves:
Oblong, in a basal rosette and alternate along the stem. Hairy underneath
Season:
April to July
Rarity:
★★★★★
